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つかまえる
Meanings
Verb (1-dan, transitive)
1. to catch; to capture; to arrest; to seize; to restrain
2. to grab; to clutch; to grasp; to seize; to hold on to
3. to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); to hail (a taxi, waiter, etc.); to hold (someone) back; to detain
4. towards (someone); at (someone); in (someone's) face
as 〜をつかまえて
Alt. forms
捕つかまえる
83%
つかまえる
13%
掴つかまえる
1%
捉つかまえる
Pitch accent
つ
かまえる
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Conjugations...Used in: 1430
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
to catch
to seize; to grab; to collar
to arrest the culprit
Examples (34 in total)
I caught a mouse.
We caught the thief.
Can you catch the chicken?
I caught a fly.
Let's catch a taxi and go home.
Cats catch mice.
A policeman caught the pickpocket.
Who has captured his heart?
This is the fish he caught.
I caught a beautiful butterfly.
Tom caught a fish with his bare hands.
To catch the bull, grab its horns.
Sami caught an orange butterfly.
I saw him caught by the police.
The mother cat went out hunting birds.
The policeman captured the running man.
It's difficult to catch a wild rabbit by hand.
The boy captured the bird with a net.
It's not easy to catch a rabbit with your bare hands.
Can you help her out before they catch her?
He tried to catch the bird, but couldn't.
What's the best way to catch mice?
The demons came out all at once to capture their prey.
During the rush hours we find it difficult to get a taxi around here.
We set a trap to catch a fox.
I caught him trying to go out of the room.
This is the biggest fish that I have ever caught.
The hunters captured the wild animal with a strong rope net.
He caught 20 butterflies.
A bird was caught by a cat.
I captured butterflies with a net.
My father caught three fish yesterday.
John caught a tiger and shot two lions.
Yesterday, my dad caught three fish.