Illustration: At a small Japanese community garden, a gardener lifts a simple removable barrier at the mouth of an irrigation channel. Water immediately streams through the opening and follows a shallow furrow between vegetable beds, its advancing edge clearly visible.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

流ながす

nagasu

to let flow, to shed

Used with liquids, tears and blood. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. あんな恐おそろしい男おとこのために流ながす涙なみだはない。

    I cannot shed a tear for that horrible man.

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  2. トイレの水みずを流ながします。

    I flush the toilet.

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  3. 彼女かのじょは涙なみだを流ながすまいとした。

    She tried not to shed tears.

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Kanji in 流

  • 流current; a sinkOnリュウ・ルKunながれる・ながれ・ながす

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