呼ぶ – Vocabulary details

呼よぶ

Verb (5-dan, ぶ, transitive)

1. to call out (to); to call; to invoke

名な前まえを呼よんでも、答こたえてくれる人ひとはいない。Even if I call out a name, there is no one who answers.

2. to summon (a doctor, etc.)

3. to invite

4. to designate; to name; to brand

彼かの女じょはお嬢じょう様さまと呼よばれるのは好すきらしい。It seems she likes being called 'young lady'.

5. to garner (support, etc.); to gather

6. to take as one's wife

call

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to call the doctor

birds of a feather flock together

to cause a commotion; to create a big stir; (lit.) to invoke a storm

太郎と呼よんでください。

Please call me Taro.

呼よんでも振ふり返かえらない。

Even when called, they don't turn around.

彼かれは僕ぼくを一郎と呼よんだ。

He called me Ichiro.

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