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Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, intransitive)
1. to cry; to shed tears; to weep; to sob
2. to suffer (from); to be troubled (by); to face hardship
usu. as ...に泣く
3. to accept (an unreasonable request, loss, etc.); to do reluctantly; to make sacrifices
4. to be not worth the name; to suffer (of a reputation); to be spoiled; to be put to shame
Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)
5. to lament; to bemoan; to bewail
Alt. forms
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Pitch accent
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Conjugations...Used in: 363
Used in vocabulary (13 in total)
to sob
to not be worthy of the reputation (e.g. restaurant, Diet member, etc.); to not be worth the name; to not deserve to be called
to shed silent tears
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Examples (99 in total)
We are crying.
My friend is crying.
I can't help crying.
He was crying.
Stop crying.
Cry your heart out.
I rarely cry.
Eliza is crying.
I didn't mean to cry.
A child is crying somewhere.
Why did you cry?
I'm sorry I made you cry yesterday.
I don't cry easily.
My mother wouldn't stop crying.
I feel like crying now.
She cried bitterly.
"Don't cry," she said.
Men don't cry.
I didn't want you to see me crying.
Don't cry. There's nothing wrong.
He kept on crying.
Pull yourself together, now. There's no point in crying.
Don't cry. Crying doesn't solve anything.
It's not worth crying over.
Why are the clouds crying?
Why are you crying? That's disgusting.
She was weeping alone.
She was crying in her room.
Was the baby crying then?
The child is crying and stamping his feet.
The little girl just kept crying.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry.
They laughed and cried at the same time.
Your eyes are red with crying.
My sister often cries.
Don't cry! I'll buy you a new one.
Are you OK? You look like you're about to cry.
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
I don't know why he's crying.
At length, he began to cry.
Mama, why is that person crying?
It's OK to cry when you're sad.
The people cried for help.
Crying is an expression of grief.
Who will weep when I die?
The child cried for the toy.
Please don't cry any more.
Babies cry when they are hungry.
The nurse soothed the crying child.
Tell me why Tom is crying.
I was moved to tears by her speech.
There were several nights when I cried.
Tell me why she's crying.
When she heard that, she felt like crying.
Even men sometimes cry.
He asked her why she was crying.
A girl stood there crying.
Her eyes were red from crying.
Do you know that crying boy?
I cry every time I watch this movie.
Crying out, the little girl was looking for her mother.
I saw a little girl sitting by the road, crying.
When I heard the news, I cried.
The movie was so sad that everybody cried.
She cried until she ran out of tears.
The baby is crying because it is hungry now.
The baby has been crying for a long time.
That child did nothing but cry all day.
I can't bear to see him cry like that.
"Why is Mary crying?" "Because of you."
She cried at the sight of her father's dead body.
The baby was crying in bed.
The baby cried all night.
The hungry baby did nothing but cry.
We cry when we are very sad.
I tried to cheer her up, but she did nothing but cry.
Keiko buried her head in the pillow and cried.
Now stop crying.
The boy told me why he was crying.
When she heard it, she just cried.
Yesterday I saw a man who was crying bitterly.
She did nothing but cry at the sight.
No matter how hard the training was, she never cried.
It's been raining for a while now. I wonder if somebody's heart is crying.
Recently, I've been crying every day. I feel too anxious about the future.
She left the baby crying.
The boy tried to be a man and not cry.
She cried and cried, but no one came to comfort her.
I would cry, too, if that happened to me.
Julia felt like crying after she heard that news.
Children often cry just to attract attention.
One day in October, when Sadako awoke, she found her mother crying.
When I came home, my mother was standing by the door in tears.
She was watching the film with her eyes red in tears.
Mother always cries when she listens to sad songs.
She felt like crying when she heard the news.
She cried for hours without ceasing.
Crying loudly, the little girl hurried to the door.
The baby has been crying for almost ten minutes.