Illustration: Two children stand far apart across a housing complex courtyard, using a homemade paper-cup telephone. One speaks softly into a cup while the other presses the matching cup to an ear and bursts into surprised laughter.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

伝つたわる

tsutawaru

to travel (of sound or light)

Example sentences

  1. 音おとはとても早はやく伝つたわる。

    Sound travels very quickly.

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  2. 光ひかりや音おとは波なみの形かたちで伝つたわる。

    Light and sound travel in waves.

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  3. 光ひかりは音おとよりはるかに早はやく伝つたわる。

    Light travels much faster than sound.

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Kanji in 伝

  • 伝transmit; go alongOnデン・テンKunつたわる・つたえる・つたう

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