To Bend Something
Transitive verb and Ichidan verb
まげる
次は、右足のひざを90ど曲げてください。
Next, please bend your right knee at a 90 degree angle.
このYoutubeビデオでは、コウイチがスプーンを百本ひたすら曲げつづけます。
In this Youtube video, Koichi just keeps bending 100 spoons.
スーパーマンはなんでも曲げられます。すでに曲がっているものでさえも。
Superman can bend anything, even something that is already bent.
This is a verb because it ends with an う sound. What does the kanji mean? It's music and bend. In the case of this word, we're going with the "bend" version. The verb of that is to bend. This is when you're doing the bending. You can remember this because げ is the gentleman you're bending. He looked good before you bent him in half.
How did you bend this gentleman? You bent him using magic (ま). Just imagine yourself bending a gentleman with magic. Go ahead, do it in your mind.