流ながす
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
1. to drain; to pour; to run; to let flow; to flush; to shed (blood, tears); to spill
2. to float (e.g. logs down a river); to set adrift
3. to wash away; to carry away; to sweep away
4. to broadcast; to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker); to send (electricity through a wire)
5. to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.); to spread; to distribute
Verb (5-dan, す, intransitive)
6. to cruise (of a taxi); to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.); to go from place to place
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
7. to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.); to call off; to reject (e.g. a bill)
8. to forfeit (a pawn)
Verb (5-dan, す, intransitive)
9. to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming); to do with ease; to do effortlessly
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
10. to exile; to banish
11. to hit (the ball) to the opposite field
Verb (5-dan, す)
12. to do inattentively; to do without concentrating; to put little effort into doing
after the -masu stem of a verb
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
13. to cause a miscarriage; to abort
Kanji used
current (in a fluid)
Pitch accent
な
が
す
Top 1200
Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)
to shed blood
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
to wash away; to rinse off
to leak (urine, feces); to soil one's pants; to dump (untreated waste, sewage, etc.); to discharge (untreated effluent); to leak (information, secrets, etc.); to bleed (a deficit, losses, etc.)
to work hard; to sweat; to wash off one's sweat
to wash away; to sweep away; to carry away
to spread rumors; to spread rumours
to forgive and forget; to let bygones be bygones; to sweep under the carpet; to wipe the slate clean
to rinse one's back
to blow away; to blow (a ship) off course; to make flutter (in the wind); to fly (a flag)
to sweat and slave; to toil away
to get a reputation as a philanderer
to leak (urine, feces); to soil one's pants; to dump (untreated waste, sewage, etc.); to discharge (untreated effluent); to leak (information, secrets, etc.); to bleed (a deficit, losses, etc.)
to get a reputation as a philanderer
to read smoothly; to skim
to wash away; to sweep away; to carry away
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
to rain heavily; to be raining cats and dogs
to cry tears of joy; to weep for joy
to forfeit a pawned article
Examples (11 in total)
I've decided to not be swayed by the trends.
Wires carry electricity.
Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.