Illustration: Outside a neighborhood greengrocer, a worker grips both handles of a wooden vegetable crate and lifts it from the pavement toward a waist-high stand. Their knees are bent, elbows tense, and the crate's underside is clearly separated from the ground.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

持もち上あげる

mochiageru

to lift up, to raise

Example sentences

  1. この石いしは重おもすぎて持もち上あげられない。

    This stone is too heavy to lift.

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  2. 私わたしはこの箱はこを持もち上あげられない。

    I cannot lift this box.

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  3. 包つつみを持もち上あげるのを手伝てつだって。

    Help me lift the package.

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Kanji in 持上

  • 持hold; haveOnジKunもつ・もてる
  • 上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・あげる

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