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Learn Hardcore Japanese: suberu - to slip

Hardcore Japanese
/Lesson 38
/suberu

suberu

Word

滑すべるsuberu

Meaning

to slip

Part of speech

group 1, verb

Pronunciation

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Hardcore Japanese

Lesson

Usages of suberu

朝あさ　は　まだ　晴はれて　いなかった　ので、　ぬれた　道みち　で　滑すべらない　よう　に　ゆっくり　歩あるいた。asa wa mada harete inakatta node, nureta michi de suberanai you ni yukkuri aruita.

It still hadn’t cleared up in the morning, so I walked slowly so I wouldn’t slip on the wet road.

Nihon-shiki romanizationwatasi ha tyuugoku kara kimasita

Hepburn romanizationwatashi wa chuugoku kara kimashita

駅えき　の　階段かいだん　で　滑すべって　転ころんだ　女おんな　の　人ひと　が　いた　ので、　けが　が　ない　か　心配しんぱいした。eki no kaidan de subette koronda onna no hito ga ita node, kega ga nai ka shinpaishita.

There was a woman who slipped and fell on the station stairs, so I worried about whether she was injured.

駅えき　の　階段かいだん　で　滑すべって、　転ころびそう　に　なりました。eki no kaidan de subette, korobisou ni narimashita.

I almost slipped and fell on the station stairs.

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