Illustration: Inside a natural history museum, a child stands before a glass exhibit containing a mounted dodo and its articulated skeleton. Behind the specimens, a detailed island habitat reconstruction contains vegetation and abandoned nesting hollows but no living birds.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

絶たえる

taeru

to die out, to become extinct

Example sentences

  1. この習慣しゅうかんは絶たえて久ひさしい。

    This custom became extinct a long time ago.

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  2. いまはもうこの種しゅのちょうは絶たえてしまっている。

    Butterflies of this species are now extinct.

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  3. 彼かれが死しんでこの村むらで一番古いちばんふるい家系かけいが絶たえてしまった。

    With his death, the oldest family in this village died out.

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Kanji in 絶

  • 絶discontinue; severOnゼツKunたえる・たやす・たつ

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