To Steal
transitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means steal, so the verb vocab version is to steal.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
What are you going to steal? How about a noose (ぬす)? Wait, why are you stealing a noose? That sounds like trouble to me…
物を盗む
to steal something
お金を盗む
to steal money
情報を盗む
to steal information
人の目を盗む
to do something unnoticed
猫が魚を盗むところを見てしまった。
I saw the cat stealing a fish.
それって他人の時間を盗んでるってことなんだよ！
That means you're stealing other people's time!
誰かのアイデアを盗むことは、悪いことなんでしょうか？
Is it wrong to steal someone else's idea?
どうせならダイアモンド１カラット盗めば良かったのに、半カラットだけ盗むなんて中途半端だよね。
If they were going to steal a diamond, they should've stolen a full one-carat — stealing just half a carat is kind of half-assed, right?