とりあげる – Vocabulary details

とりあげる

Meanings

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to pick up

2. to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take up (a topic, complaint, etc.); to listen to; to deal with; to treat; to report (news); to cover; to feature

3. to take away; to confiscate; to deprive (someone) of; to revoke; to disqualify; to cancel

4. to deliver (a baby)

5. to collect (taxes)

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

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Conjugations...Used in: 357

Composed of

とり

taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

あげる

to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry

Used in vocabulary (1 in total)

もんだいをとりあげる

to take up a problem

Examples (8 in total)

警けい官かんは少しょう年ねんからナイフをとりあげた。

The policeman took the knife from the boy.

運うん転てん免めん許きょ証しょうをとりあげられてしまったそうだね。

I hear you had your driver's license canceled.

電でん話わが鳴なる。スーザンは受じゅ話わ器きをとりあげる。

The telephone rings. Susan picks it up.

悪あく質しつなドライバーは免めん許きょ証しょうをとりあげるべきだ。

Bad drivers should have their licenses taken away from them.

彼かれは受じゅ話わ器きをとりあげてダイアルを回まわした。

He took up the receiver and dialed.

トムからそれをとりあげる権けん利りは、あなたにはありませんよ。

You have no right to take it away from Tom.

このブログは情じょう報ほうインフラを中ちゅう心しんとしたトピックをとりあげています。

This blog covers topics that centre on information infrastructure.

喫きつ煙えん者しゃはたばこをとりあげられると、神しん経けい質しつで怒おこりっぽくなる。