Illustration: At a blind corner inside a Japanese supermarket, two shoppers' small wheeled baskets collide front corner to front corner. Both shoppers lean backward in surprise while gripping their handles, and the touching metal frames tilt slightly from the impact.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

衝しょう突とつ

shoutotsu

to collide, to crash

Example sentences

  1. 車くるまがトラックに衝突しょうとつした。

    The car collided with a truck.

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  2. 二台にだいのトラックが衝突しょうとつした。

    Two trucks bumped together.

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  3. 車くるまが木きに衝突しょうとつした。

    The car ran into a tree.

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Kanji in 衝突

  • 衝collide; bruntOnショウKunつく
  • 突stab; protrudingOnトツ・カKunつく

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