偲ぶ

しのぶ

Also written 慕ぶ

Meanings

1. Godan verb, Transitive to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to be nostalgic for
2. to imagine; to guess; to infer (usu. in the passive as しのばれる)
3. Transitive to admire (e.g. beauty); to praise; to commend

Kanji

• 偲 recollect; remember. Read as しのぶ.

Example sentences

• ミサは、食べたり飲んだりしてイエスキリストを偲ぶカトリックの儀式だ。
  Mass is a Catholic ceremony of remembering Jesus Christ by eating and drinking.
• ２人の警官は夜盗を逮捕した。２人は夜盗がミラー夫人宅にしのび込もうとした現場を押さえたのだ。
  Two policemen arrested a burglar. They caught him sneaking into Mrs. Miller's.
• 故人をしのんで、記念碑が建てられた。
  A monument has been erected to the memory of the deceased.
• 故人となった時、みんなからどんな風に偲ばれたいですか？
  When you die, what would you like people to remember you as?

Common phrases

• 故人を偲ぶ (こじんをしのぶ) to think of the dead
• 犠牲者を偲ぶ
• 人柄を偲ぶ

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