THE WORD · N5
消える
disappear
Verbe · Group 2 verb
ろうそくはひとりでに消えた。
The candle went off on its own.
Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: small_snow · French : human600
Parts of speech
Group 2 verb (ichidan) · Intransitive
The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.
Verb group: Group 2 (ichidan)
Verb usage: intransit
English dictionary meanings
- to disappear
- to vanish
- to go out of sight
- to go away
- to become lost
- to go out (of a fire, light, etc.)
- to die
- to turn off (e.g. of a TV screen)
- to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.)
- to vanish (e.g. of hope)
- to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
- to fade away (e.g. of footsteps)
- to wear away (e.g. of an inscription)
- to rub out (of writing)
- to fade (e.g. of ink)
- to be lost (e.g. of a tradition)
- to die out