Hanamaruhanamaru

あるく

歩く

walk

aruku

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#2,762

Meanings

  1. 1
    to walkv5kvi

JMdict 1514320

In a sentence

こうえん公園parkあるく歩くwalkすき好きlike

I like walking in the park

How it works

(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 (that act) bundles that verb phrase into a noun — “the act of walking in the park” — and (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