Japanese Word of the Day

泳ぐ
およぐ - oyogu

swim

Definitions

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泳ぐ

1. v. to swim

昨日、私はジムで５キロ泳ぎました。 - Yesterday I swam 5 kilometers at the gym.

ここで泳げる。 - We can swim here.

泳ぐことができない。 - I cannot swim.

2. v. to act freely while being monitored (in the possibility that one will do something incriminating); (used in the causative 泳がす、泳がせる)

容疑者を泳がせる - to let a suspect swim → to monitor a suspect

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