► 代名詞
彼 [(1)かれ] [liter] meaning: he rank: 1
☆ 彼はサッカーの選手だ ⇨ He is a football player (☛ Not commonly used in conversation)
► 名詞
彼 [(1)かれ] [coll] meaning: love rank: 1
☆ 私の彼 ⇨ My boyfriend (☛ A boyfriend. Usually for young people)
More examples:
- 彼女、おめでただそうだ ⇨ I heard she was pregnant
- 彼は何の苦労もせず生きてきた ⇨ He has lived his life without any adversity
- 彼の冗談に皆笑いこけた ⇨ Everybody laughed out loud at his joke
- 彼は狩った鹿の腹を切り裂いた ⇨ He cut up the stomach of the deer he hunted
- 彼は窓を開けた ⇨ He opened a window
- 彼は鉄の棒をいとも簡単にひん曲げた ⇨ He bent the steel bar as if nothing
- 彼はテレビの画面を食い入るように見つめた ⇨ He watched TV screen intently as if to bite into it
- 彼女にはマゾ気がある ⇨ She has a masochistic tendency
- 昨日彼に会った ⇨ I met him yesterday
- 彼女はいつも笑顔を振りまいている ⇨ She is always radiating smiles
- 日本人にとって戦争は忘却の彼方だ ⇨ For Japanese wars are far away in oblivion
- 彼女は部屋をこっそり出た ⇨ She sneaked out of the room
- 彼等はそうするよう事前に申し合わせていた ⇨ They had made an arrangement to do so beforehand
- 彼等は敵が油断した隙を突いて攻撃をかけた ⇨ They exploited a tiny opportunity when the enemy let the guard down and attacked
- 彼は事故を未然に防止した ⇨ He prevented the accident from happening