さる

Meanings

1. 1
   monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primatenoun
2. 2
   sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)noun
3. 3
   clasp used to control the height of a pot-hooknoun

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In a sentence

さるmonkeyは木(き)treeに登(のぼ)るclimb

How it works

A simple statement of fact. は (topic) raises 猿(さる) (monkey) as the topic, and に (to) marks 木(き) (tree) as the place the action heads toward. The verb 登る(のぼる) (climb) lands last, as Japanese verbs always do.