Japanese word
飲む
のむ
In your course · Chapter 9
- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 818 in the course corpus
Meanings
- drink (plain)
- to drink
- to swallow
- to take (medicine)
- to smoke (tobacco)
- to swallow up
- to engulf
- to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.)
- to keep down
- to hold back
- to swallow (one's tears)
- to catch (one's breath)
- to accept (a demand, conditions, etc.)
- to agree to
- to make light of (someone)
- to think nothing of
- to overwhelm
- to overawe
- to carry (a concealed dagger, etc.)
- to conceal (up one's sleeve, etc.)
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 飲
- On reading:
- イン、オン
- Kun reading:
- -の.み、の.む
- Meanings:
- drink, smoke, take
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