登る To Climb

Meaning

Primary

To Climb

Alternative

To Ascend

Word Type

intransitive verb, godan verb

Explanation

This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means climb so the verb vocab version would be to climb (or to ascend), if that's the kind of thing you're into.

Reading

のぼる

Explanation

Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. This has the same reading as 上る which you learned all that time ago in Level 1. If you can remember that, you can remember this one!

Context

Common Word Combinations

• 〜を登る

  山を登る

  to climb a mountain

  山道を登る

  to climb a mountain path

  かいだんを登る

  to climb stairs

• 〜に登る

  木に登る

  to climb a tree

  ジグザグに登る

  to ascend in a zig-zag pattern

  山に登る

  to climb a mountain

Context Sentences

この長くてきゅうなさかを登るのはかなりキツイっすね。

Going up this long, steep slope is really tough, eh?

コウイチは、さるのようにスイスイと木に登り、いともかんたんにバナナを取っておりてきました。

Koichi climbed up the tree as fast as a monkey and came down with bananas without breaking a sweat.

一生の内、少なくとも一度は富士山に登ることが夢なんです。

A dream of mine is to climb Mt. Fuji at least once in my lifetime.

Kanji Composition

1. 登

   とう Climb