Meanings
Verb (5-dan, む, transitive)
1. to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs)
2. to produce; to yield; to give rise to; to deliver
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Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
to have a talented child despite being untalented; a black hen lays a white egg; (lit.) a kite gives birth to a hawk
to have a talented child despite being untalented; a black hen lays a white egg; (lit.) a kite gives birth to a hawk
Examples (170 in total)
Were you born here?
I wish I'd been born a man.
What year were you born?
A kitten was born.
What country were you born in?
Where were you born?
There was a momentary pause.
When were you born?
I wish I'd been born a cat.
I was born in Tokyo.
A baby boy was born to them.
We're about to have a baby.
I was born in America.
A baby was born to them.
I was born in Kyoto.
I was born in Russia.
Jesus was born of Mary.
Passion creates suffering.
At what hour was she born?
I was born in Yokohama.
She was born last year.
She will give birth to a child next month.
They were born in Thailand.
He was born in Nagasaki.
He was born in Africa.
When did democracy come into existence?
Paul was born in Rome.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Tom was born premature.
I was born Muslim.
That is the house where I was born.
I often wish I'd been born a man.
We were born on the same day.
This is the town where he was born.
I wasn't born yesterday.
Why was money invented?
The day that he was born was rainy.
Here is the hospital where I was born.
The town where I was born is beautiful.
A son was born to the couple.
He is Japanese by birth.
She gave birth to twin girls.
Such conduct will give rise to suspicion.
My grandpa was born on Christmas Day.
They say that he was born in Germany.
The baby is due next week.
They had a baby last week.
Inventions are born, so to speak, of necessity.
Germany has produced many scientists.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
This institution came into being after the war.
When was Lucia born?
Mary is going to have a baby next month.
Kobe is the city where I was born.
Jack was born on August tenth.
A newborn baby is liable to fall ill.
The baby arrived near dawn.
Was it in October that your baby was born?
That's the house where Tom was born.
Jim was born in the same year as he.
I was born into a poor family.
The chicken laid an egg this morning.
In what country was Mozart born?
Were all your children born in Australia?
It snowed heavily in the morning he was born.
Jones was born in the United States.
My parents were born in Aichi Prefecture.
The calf was born this morning.
The gramophone was born of Edison's brain.
He was born in Ohio.
I know the house where he was born.
Was that before or after I was born?
I remember the house where I grew up.
This is the village where I was born.
My father died before I was born.
I was born to love you.
It is not clear when the man was born.
The village in which he was born is far from here.
I visited the village where he was born.
My parents got married before I was born.
Where was he born and raised?
The birthday is the day on which a person was born.
I was born the year the war ended.
When the universe was born, something came from nothing.
I wanted to be born a rabbit, and not a human.
She gave birth to a fine healthy baby.
Do you know the town where he was born?
She was born in America and grew up in Japan.
This is the village where the poet was born.
The town gave birth to many men of note.
She is going to have a baby this month.
Do you know when the first parliament came into being?
He was born in a small town in Italy.
Mrs. Smith gave birth to her second child.
I was born in a small town called Nara.
Events of that type generally arouse suspicion.
The accident resulted from his carelessness.
Were all your children born in Boston?
Judy was born on the morning of September 5.
Shakespeare is the greatest poet that England has produced.
They say that Tom Jackson was born in Australia.
Population growth has given rise to serious social problems.
I was born in a Muslim-majority country.
Stock investments do not always yield profit.
I remember the day you were born very well.
The same cause often gives rise to different effects.
This is the house where the famous novelist was born.
No one knows when such a custom came into existence.
Nagasaki, where I was born, is a beautiful port city.
The work will give birth to a new school of novel.
Although he was born in England, he speaks English very badly.
Had Napoleon been born in this century, what could he have done?
The bribery scandal created a backlash overseas.
Marie does not know exactly where she was born.
My son went to London, where I was born.
The man was ashamed of being born poor.
With restrictions removed, thousands of new enterprises have come into being.
She came from a wealthy family and received a good education.
The only useful answers are those that raise new questions.
The baby was named Richard after his grandfather.
We know the fact that she was born in Canada.
White strawberries were born of a mutation during selective breeding.
My parents are Spanish, but I was born in Argentina.
Born in better times, he would have become famous.
The baby weighed seven pounds at birth.
The house where my father was born is just around the corner.
This new plan may bring a lasting peace.
After a heated discussion, a compromise was adopted. Smokers will be allowed to smoke in the smoking corner.
Investing abroad on your national currency basis will not always be profitable.
Until recently, the main function of women was to marry and give birth to children.
The Norwegian diplomat mediated the secret negotiations that produced the historic document.
I was born in 1980.
I was born in 2013.
Our first child was born in 2006.
John Lennon was born in 1940.
George Washington was born in 1732.
My grandfather was born in 1920.
Were you born in the 20th century or in the 21st?
I was born in Osaka in 1977.
I was born in Hiroshima in 1945.
When and where was Beethoven born?
"When were you born?" "April first."
Christ was born in 4 BC.
Tom was born on February 29th.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia in 1910.
This dog was born two months ago.
She gave birth to twins a week ago.
They were born one month apart in 1970.
I was born on April 3, 1950.
My father was born in Matsuyama in 1941.
I was born on February 13, 1987.
He was born on July 28th, 1888.
I was born on the 31st of May in 1940.
Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of nonviolence, was born in 1869.
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642.
Italo Calvino was born in 1923 in Cuba.
The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.
I was born in Osaka on March 5, 1977.
I was born on 23 March 1969 in Barcelona.
She was born in 1946, on August 19, in California.
Fiona was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in January 2017.
My life would probably have been quite different if I had been born a month later.
He was born at seven on the morning of June 5 in 1970.
She was born at six a.m. on July 17, 1990.
He had been living in Nagano for seven years when his daughter was born.
Tamori was born in 1945, that is, when World War II ended.
She says she has no intention of having a baby until she's in her thirties.
There were 20 more births than deaths in the town last month.
When they had their first baby, they had been married for 10 years.