こわ
Meanings
Verb (1-dan, intransitive)
1. to be broken; to break
2. to fall through; to come to nothing
Kanji used
break
Pitch accent
われ
Top 1700
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
to trip a circuit breaker
Examples (46 in total)
Is anything broken?
It's broken.
This is broken.
The television is broken.
My camera broke.
The shower is broken.
The radio is broken.
The lock is broken.
My laptop broke.
My bicycle broke.
The heater is broken.
My phone was broken.
This desk is broken.
If it's not broken, don't fix it.
My mobile phone is broken.
This machine is broken.
My umbrella broke.
Both of the windows were broken.
The heating in the dorm is broken.
My cellphone charger broke down.
His car was seriously damaged.
Not a few houses were destroyed in the typhoon.
My father fixed the broken chair.
Water spouted from the broken faucet.
Is that long chimney broken?
It must've been broken during shipping.
It must have been broken during shipping.
The building may crash at any time.
The broken doll is mine.
This old car is always broken.
My TV broke, so I had to take it to get it repaired.
That broken vase is my grandfather's.
Why are pretty things so fragile?
The clock that got broken must be repaired right away.
It took three hours to put the broken toy together.
Tom fixed the broken chair.
They replaced the broken television with a new one.
The earphones I'd been using for a long time finally broke.
I can't listen to music at night anymore because my headphones broke.
I made a temporary repair to the broken door.
The machine broke because he had not looked after it properly.
The engineers blew up the bridge because it was about to collapse.
Finally, their friendship ended and their close relationship disappeared.
The mirror broke.
Aaah!! My computer is broken!
I had had my watch repaired, but it broke again.