day 62keep moving

keep moving

Talk about moving, leaving, reaching and getting through, and say “just” and “since, and never again” (きり).

today’s words

• きり · only, just; since (and never again)
• 向く むく · to face, turn towards
• 向ける むける · to turn (something) towards
• 去る さる · to leave, go away
• 至る いたる · to reach, come to (今に至るまで: to this day)
• 達する たっする · to reach, attain
• 届く とどく · to arrive, be delivered; reach
• 離れる はなれる · to leave, be away from
• 通す とおす · to let through, pass
• 通じる つうじる · to get through; be understood
• 経つ たつ · (time) to pass
• 越す こす · to go over, pass (a number, a winter)
• 移す うつす · to move (something), transfer
• 動かす うごかす · to move (something)
• 進める すすめる · to move forward, advance (a plan)
• 前進 ぜんしん · moving forward, progress
• 眺める ながめる · to gaze at, look out at
• 飛ばす とばす · to fly, blow away; skip
• 抜く ぬく · to pull out, remove; skip
• 抜ける ぬける · to come out, fall out; go through

sentences

• 二人きりで、話したい。 · I want to talk with just the two of us.
• 兄は、外国へ行ったきり、帰ってこない。 · My brother went abroad and never came back.
• 窓の外を眺めながら、コーヒーを飲んだ。 · I drank my coffee, gazing out of the window.
• 歯医者で、虫歯を抜いた。 · I had a bad tooth pulled at the dentist's.
• 前を向いて、歩こう。 · Let's look ahead and keep walking.