Illustration: A child lies on a picnic sheet beside a Japanese riverside embankment, gazing upward with an absorbed smile. Above, an ordinary long cloud gradually takes the recognizable shape of a flying whale: one end remains loose cloud vapor while the other has a rounded whale face and a cloudlike flipper.

JLPT N3suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

想そう像ぞう

souzou

to imagine

Example sentences

  1. 月つきの上うえにいると想像そうぞうしなさい。

    Imagine yourself to be on the moon.

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  2. そんな生活せいかつは想像そうぞうできません。

    I can’t imagine such a life.

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  3. 私わたしは月つきでの生活せいかつを想像そうぞうしてみた。

    I tried to imagine life on the moon.

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Kanji in 想像

  • 想idea; thoughtOnソウ・ソKunおもう
  • 像statue; pictureOnゾウ

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