Hanamaruhanamaru

とんぼ

dragonfly

tonbo

Frequency
#23,724

In a sentence

とんぼdragonflyとんでる飛んでるflying

A dragonfly is flying

How it works

(subject) points out とんぼ (dragonfly) as the subject — (subject) is used here to report something newly noticed, rather than (topic) which sets up a topic. The verb is 飛んでるとんでる (is flying), the contracted casual progressive of 飛ぶとぶ (to fly) (full form 飛んでいるとんでいる (is flying)), describing an action happening right now: "A dragonfly is flying."