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28 移す To Shift

Alternative Meanings

To Transfer

Part of Speech

Transitive verb and Godan verb

Reading

うつす

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

Context Sentence

私は苺をミキサーに移しました。

I transferred the strawberries to the blender.

Meaning Explanation

Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means shift so the verb vocab version is to shift.

Reading Explanation

All that dubstep (うつうつうつうつうつ) playing downstairs is causing all of your glassware to shift off the shelf and onto the floor. Damn that dubstep. うつうつうつうつうつ♪

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