まねく – Vocabulary details

まねく

Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)

1. to invite; to ask

2. to beckon; to wave someone in; to gesture to

3. to call in; to send for; to summon

4. to bring on oneself; to cause; to incur; to lead to; to result in

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to beckon (to)

to bring calamity upon oneself; to invite disaster; to court disaster

to beckon

every flow has its ebb; arrogance leads to downfall

怠たい惰だは失しっ敗ぱいをまねく。

Idleness leads to failure.

彼かの女じょの誕たん生じょう日びパーティーにまねかれました。

I was invited to her birthday party.

旧きゅう友ゆうがレセプションにまねかれた。

Old friends were invited to the reception.

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