To Pass Through
Intransitive verb and Godan verb
とおる
このみちは、ほそくて通りにくいです。
This road is narrow and difficult to pass through.
日本ごがペラペラになるなんてありえないと思うかもしれませんが、それはあたらしい言ごを学ぶだれもが通る道です。
It seems impossible to become fluent in Japanese, but everybody who learns a new language travels along the same road.
お茶会のためのメープルシロップを買うために、カナダを通ってイギリスに行った。
I stopped by Canada on the way to England to get some maple syrup for the tea party.
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 pass through so the verb vocab version means to pass through.
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:
There's something in front of you that you have to pass through but you can't. It's a wall. In order to pass through it, you decide to kick it as hard as you can to knock it down. Unfortunately, it is way stronger than you, and your toe explodes on contact. You yell: "TOE! OH!" (とお) and then just scream a lot.