Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a resident uses both hands to slide a heavy rectangular planter a short distance sideways along a shelf. A clean rectangular patch and a short damp drag mark reveal its previous position. The planter stays on the same shelf, immediately beside that footprint.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ずらす

zurasu

to shift, to move

It can also mean moving an appointment or schedule. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. ちょっと椅子いすをずらしてくれない？

    Could you move the chair a bit?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 台座だいざに心棒しんぼうを立たてて、各かくパーツをずらしながら重かさねていきます。

    You stand the axis on the base and then proceed to stack up each part, staggering their position.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これらの板いたをずらしながら下したから平行へいこうに重かさねて並ならべ、竹釘たけくぎで止とめる。

    These boards are placed horizontally so that a board overlaps the adjacent board, and are fixed with bamboo pegs.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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