さかのぼる – Vocabulary details

さかのぼる

Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)

Usually written in kana

1. to go upstream

2. to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to; to make retroactive

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かのぼ

る

inverse; reverse

to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to

映えい画がは第だい二に次じ世せ界かい大たい戦せんにさかのぼる。

The film takes us back to World War II.

剣けん道どうは、武ぶ士しの時じ代だいにさかのぼる日に本ほん古こ来らいの武ぶ術じゅつです。

Kendo is an ancient Japanese martial art that dates back to the time of the samurai warriors.

私わたしは自じ分ぶんの祖そ先せんを200年ねんさかのぼることができる。

I can trace my ancestors back 200 years.

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