► 名詞
川 [(2)かわ] meaning: river rank: 1
☆ アマゾン川 (あまぞんがわ) ⇨ The Amazon River (☛ Can be written also as 河, especially a larger river)
More examples:
- 橋の下を川が流れている ⇨ There’s a river flowing underneath the bridge
- 警察は証拠を探して川の底をさらった ⇨ The police dredged the river bottom looking for evidence
- 家の裏っ側・裏側に小川が流れている (うらっかわ・うらがわ) ⇨ There is a creek running behind the house
- 鮭は生まれた川に戻って産卵する ⇨ Salmons go back to the river they were born and spawn
- 子供の頃あの川によく釣りに行ったもんです ⇨ I would go fishing on that river all the time when I was a kid
- 川はこの先で分岐する ⇨ The river diverges up ahead
- 河川敷の野球場 ⇨ A baseball field on a river floodplain
- この川は深いから気をつけろ ⇨ This river is deep so be careful
- 徳川家の子孫 ⇨ The descendants of Tokugawa family
- 多摩川は一級河川だ ⇨ The Tama river is a class one river
- ここはアメリカで川を隔てた向こう側はメキシコだ ⇨ We’re in the US and the other side of this river is Mexico
- 川の上流 ⇨ The upstream of a river
- この川は流れが急だから危険だ ⇨ This river current is very fast and dangerous
- 彼は川で水死した ⇨ He drowned in the river
- 川は見る見るうちに溢れた ⇨ The river overflew right before our eyes, very quickly