拭う
ぬぐう · nuguu (also spelled nugu)
To wipe, to mop up
- to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.), to dispel (e.g. shame), to erase, to remove
Other ways to say “to wipe” in Japanese →
falls after mora 2 · what is pitch accent?
Example sentences
彼女は上映中、涙を拭うことなく見入っていた。
かのじょはじょうえいちゅう、なみだをぬぐうことなくみいっていた。
She watched intently during the screening without wiping away tears.
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Conjugation
| Polite (ます形) | 拭いますぬぐいます |
| Polite negative (ません) | 拭いませんぬぐいません |
| Polite past (ました) | 拭いましたぬぐいました |
| Polite past negative (ませんでした) | 拭いませんでしたぬぐいませんでした |
| Let us ~ (ましょう) | 拭いましょうぬぐいましょう |
| Masu-stem (連用形) | 拭いぬぐい |
| Want to ~ (たい形) | 拭いたいぬぐいたい |
| While ~ing (ながら) | 拭いながらぬぐいながら |
| Te-form (て形) | 拭ってぬぐって |
| Plain past (た形) | 拭ったぬぐった |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 拭ったらぬぐったら |
| Progressive (ている形) | 拭っているぬぐっている |
| Plain negative (ない形) | 拭わないぬぐわない |
| Plain past negative (なかった形) | 拭わなかったぬぐわなかった |
| Negative te-form (なくて) | 拭わなくてぬぐわなくて |
| Potential (可能形) | 拭えるぬぐえる |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 拭えばぬぐえば |
| Imperative (命令形) | 拭えぬぐえ |
| Volitional (意向形) | 拭おうぬぐおう |
| Passive (受身形) | 拭われるぬぐわれる |
| Causative (使役形) | 拭わせるぬぐわせる |
| Causative-passive (使役受身形) | 拭わされるぬぐわされる |
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What does 拭う mean?
To wipe, to mop up. It can also mean: to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.), to dispel (e.g. shame), to erase, to remove.
How do you pronounce 拭う?
ぬぐう (nuguu). Pitch accent: nakadaka — falls after mora 2. Press Listen above to hear it.
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