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  2. 歩く

あるく

歩く

N5

walk

aruku

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JLPT
N5
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#2,762

Meanings

  1. 1
    to walku-verb (く)intransitive

JMdict 1514320

Conjugation

FormConjugatedReading
Polite Present (~masu)
歩きますあるきます
あるきます
Polite Past (~mashita)
歩きましたあるきました
あるきました
Polite Negative (~masen)
歩きませんあるきません
あるきません
Plain Negative (~nai)
歩かないあるかない
あるかない
Te-form (Connecting)
歩いてあるいて
あるいて
Plain Past (~ta)
歩いたあるいた
あるいた
Potential (Can do)
歩けるあるける
あるける

In a sentence

公園(こうえん)parkを歩(ある)くwalkのが好(す)きlike

I like walking in the park

How it works

を (object) marks 公園(こうえん) (park) as the place being walked through, so 公園を歩く(こうえんをあるく) (walk through the park) is a whole action. Then の (that act) bundles that verb phrase into a noun — “the act of walking in the park” — and が (subject) makes it the subject of 好き(すき) (like). Japanese treats “like” as a description of a thing, so what you like has to be turned into a noun-like chunk first.

Written with

  • 歩walk8 strokes

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