違える – Vocabulary details

違ちがえる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to change; to alter

2. to mistake; to make a mistake

3. to fail to keep (e.g. one's promise)

4. to sprain (a muscle); to dislocate (e.g. one's neck)

different therefore wrong

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がえる

① やりそこなう。失敗する。まちがう。② 誤って取り違える。

to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else

to stab each other; to sacrifice oneself in order to harm someone else

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