

Meanings
- 1cloudnoun
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In a sentence
The clouds are drifting
How it works
が (subject) marks 雲 (cloud) as the thing doing the action. The verb is 流れる (to flow) in its て (te-form) form, joined to いく (go) — the pattern [verb te-form] + いく (go) shows motion continuing away from you, so it reads as “drifting off into the distance”. Plain register, no polite です (is) or ます (polite), so it feels like a quiet observation to yourself.