なく
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
Usually written in kana
1. to lose (something); to mislay
2. to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
Pitch accent
くす
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Examples (73 in total)
What did you lose?
I lost my glasses.
Did you lose your ID card?
She lost her car keys.
I found the keys I'd lost.
What? You've lost your mobile again?
I've lost my bag.
Ugh! I lost my phone again.
I lost my purse.
Mary lost her cell phone.
I lost one of my earrings.
Tom has lost his eraser.
Tracy lost her glasses.
Tom lost his teddy bear.
I lost my passport. I'll have to get a new one.
Waaahhh! I lost my wallet.
I found the book I'd lost yesterday.
Oh no! I lost the car key.
He found my lost bike.
I lost my hat on the bus.
I lost my key around here.
I can't find my ticket. I must have lost it.
The pen I lost yesterday was new.
Oh, no! I may have lost my passport.
I've lost your email address.
He lost all the money he had.
I found my credit card that I thought I'd lost.
We must make up for lost time.
I lost my receipt. Can I still get a refund?
There's no gain without pain.
You should not lose anything borrowed.
The old man lost his will to live.
The soldiers lost the courage to fight.
This is the same camera that he lost.
I found the lost ball in the park.
I've lost my religious faith.
He lost his umbrella again.
The lost key was under the couch.
How can we abolish war?
This is the pen that I lost yesterday.
She lost her hat, but soon found it.
Have you ever lost your luggage at an airport?
I lost the door key, so I can't enter the house.
The watch I lost the other day was new.
The old man lost the will to live.
You must get rid of that bad habit.
I lost the hat I bought in Boston.
Tom lost his appetite due to the heat wave.
He searched the room for the lost key.
She found the ring that she had lost during the journey.
By the way, did you find the umbrella you said you'd lost the other day?
I lost a camera the day before that.
This is the same pencil that I lost the other day.
Loss of health is more serious than loss of money.
My daughter lost almost all the coins she had collected.
Sally lost the contact lenses she had bought the day before.
Tom found my necklace that I thought I'd lost.
Some have lost faith in democracy.
I've lost my fountain pen. I have to buy another one tomorrow.
He lost almost all the stamps he had collected.
She gave me a lovely watch, but I lost it.
I've lost or broken all my necklaces.
While swimming in the pool, she lost her locker key.
The little boy has lost the money given to him by his father.
You should not have done it without my permission.
He told me that he had lost his textbook the previous morning.
Everybody knows that he lost his leg in the war.
All his hopes evaporated when he lost his only son in the war.
I had lost my purse, so I couldn't buy the cassette.
I lost a ten-dollar note.
My father gave me a watch, but I lost it.
This is the same wallet as I lost a week ago.
He lost the watch that I had bought him a week before.