つく – Vocabulary details

つく

Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)

1. to prick; to stab

針はりで指ゆびを突ついてしまった。I pricked my finger with a needle.

2. to poke; to prod; to push; to thrust; to nudge; to hit; to strike

軽かるく突つくように、反はん論ろんしてみる。I try to counter-argue, as if lightly poking.

3. to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with; to press against (the floor, etc.)

祖そ父ふは杖つえを突ついて歩あるく。My grandfather walks with a cane.

4. to attack

その隙すきを今こん度どは私わたしたちが突つきたいのです！This time we want to be the ones to attack that opening!

5. to brave (the rain, etc.)

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to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)

to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)

to kneel down on one knee; to genuflect

図ず星ぼしをつかれて切きれるなんて。

Fancy losing your temper just because someone hit the nail on the head.

やはりそこをついてきたか。

So you went after that point, just as I thought.

祖そ父ふは杖つえをついて歩あるく。

My grandfather walks with a cane.

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