くう – Vocabulary details

くう

Verb (5-dan, う, transitive)

Masculine

1. to eat

まずくて食くえたものではないな。It's so bad that it's not fit to eat.

2. to live; to make a living; to survive

3. to bite; to sting (as insects do)

4. to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of

5. to encroach on; to eat into; to consume

6. to defeat a superior; to threaten a position

7. to consume time; to consume resources

うわ、随ずい分ぶんと時じ間かんを食くったな。Wow, that took quite a lot of time.

8. to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)

9. to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

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to build a nest; to nest; to hang out (of a bad group); to be based (in); to lodge (in one's mind; of an evil thought, delusion, etc.); to be planted

to grow older (than expected); to advance in age

to be flurried; to be confused; to lose one's head

昨日きのうから何なにもくってない。

I haven't eaten anything since yesterday.

うわ、随ずい分ぶんと時じ間かんをくったな。

Wow, that took quite a lot of time.

くわないと体たい力りょく戻もどらないぞ。

If you don't eat, your strength won't return.

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