Hanamaruhanamaru

かぎ

key

kagi

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#3,453

Meanings

  1. 1
    keyn
  2. 2
    lockn
  3. 3
    key (to a problem, success, etc.); cluen

JMdict 1260490

In a sentence

かぎkeyなくしましたlost

I lost my key

How it works

(object) marks かぎ (key) as the thing the action happens to. The verb is なくす (lose), and here it takes the polite past form なくしました (lost): the polite 〜ます (polite) ending shifted into its past, 〜ました (polite past). As always in Japanese, the verb comes last.

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