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きく

聞く

listen

kiku

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#1,127

Meanings

  1. 1
    to hearv5kvt
  2. 2
    to listen (e.g. to music)v5kvt
  3. 3
    to ask; to enquire; to queryv5kvt

JMdict 1591110

In a sentence

おんがく音楽musicをきく聞くlistenのがすき好きlike

I like listening to music

How it works

を (object) marks 音楽おんがく (music) as what's heard, and 聞くきく (listen) is the verb. Then の (that) turns the whole phrase "listening to music" into a noun, which が (subject) marks as the subject of 好きすき (like) — literally "listening-to-music is liked." Plain, casual, no copula at the end.

Written with

聞hear14 strokes