Illustration: Inside a Japanese community kendo hall, two armored competitors engage at close range on the wooden floor. One steps forward with a bamboo sword descending while the other braces and meets the attack with their own blade.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

戦たたかう

tatakau

to fight, to do battle

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれらは敵てきと戦たたかった。

    They fought against the enemy.

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  2. 我々われわれは激はげしく戦たたかった。

    We fought a hard battle.

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  3. 彼かれらは激はげしく戦たたかった。

    They fought a fierce battle.

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Kanji in 戦

  • 戦war; battleOnセンKunいくさ・たたかう・おののく

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