動く
うごく
Meanings
- Godan verb, Intransitive to move; to stir; to shift; to shake; to swing
- to operate; to run; to go; to work
- to make a move; to take action; to act; to go into action
- to be touched; to be influenced
- to change; to vary; to fluctuate; to waver (sometimes prenom. as 動かぬ, 動かない, etc. to mean "certain")
- to be transferred
Kanji
- 動 move. Read as うごく.
Example sentences
- ここを動くんじゃないぞ。
Don't you move from here. - 牛は背の高い緑色の草の中をゆっくり動いていました。
The cows were moving very slowly through the long green grass. - 休日で車は街道をのろのろと動いた。
The holiday traffic crawled along the highway. - 下手な動き方をしない様に気をつけなさい。
Take care not to make a foolish move. - 俺は動き続ける。
I gotta keep on movin'.
Common phrases
- 動き出す (うごきだす) to start to move
- 体が動く
- 試合が動く
- 獲得に動く
- 方向に動く
- 足が動く
- 手が動く
- 車が動く
- 左右に動く
- 上下に動く
- 通りに動く
- 筋肉が動く
- 心が動く (こころがうごく) to take a fancy to something
- 動かぬ証拠 (うごかぬしょうこ) irrefutable evidence
- 電気で動く (でんきでうごく) to run by electricity
Related forms
- 動かす (うごかす) to move (transitive partner)
Words containing 動く
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