Illustration: On a narrow residential footpath beside a concrete garden wall, two neighbors pass shoulder to shoulder in opposite directions. One is returning with a basket of vegetables; the other carries an empty shopping bag toward the shops.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

すれ違ちがう

surechigau

to pass each other

Example sentences

  1. 通とおりですれ違ちがった時私ときわたしをわざと無視むしした。

    He deliberately ignored me when I passed him in the street.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 通とおりで少年しょうねんとすれ違ちがった。

    I passed a boy in the street.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼女かのじょは通とおりですれ違ちがう時ときに私わたしに微笑ほほえみかけた。

    She smiled at me as she passed me in the street.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 違

  • 違difference; differOnイKunちがう・ちがい・ちがえる

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