► 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:
- 彼は収賄に絡んでいる ⇨ He is involved in bribery
- 彼は試合に絶対勝つと自信満々だ ⇨ He is full of confidence that he wins the game
- 彼は初心を貫き通した ⇨ He has maintained his first ideas and goals throughout
- それが彼がサッカーの神と呼ばれる所以だ ⇨ That is the reason he is called the god of football
- 彼は他をぶっちぎって優勝した ⇨ He won (the race) by leaving others in the dust
- 彼は我慢が足りない ⇨ He doesn’t have enough patience
- 彼は隅に追いやられた ⇨ He was forced into a corner
- 彼女はバニラ豆からエキスを抽出した ⇨ She extracted the essence out of vanilla beans
- 彼等は質素な生活をしている ⇨ They live a very frugal life
- 彼と私はよく話が合う ⇨ He and I can have good conversations. We have similar interests and sensibilities. We get along well
- 私は彼と直接話した ⇨ I talked to him directly
- 彼に勝ち目は無い ⇨ He has zero chance of winning
- 彼女は内股歩きをしている ⇨ She walks legs tilted toward inner thighs. is knock-kneed
- 彼が音頭を取って新しい体育館設立の募金をした ⇨ He took the initiative for the fundraising to build a new gym
- 彼は愛想はいいけど実際は何の仕事もしない ⇨ He is friendly but won’t get anything done actually