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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

警告する

Pronunciation / Transliteration: keikoku suru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Warn/wɔːrn/
verbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2100 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"私は彼に危険を警告した。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To inform someone in advance of a possible danger, problem, or unpleasant consequence.

    "Meteorologists warned the coastal residents about the approaching hurricane."
  2. 2

    To give authoritative advice or strongly counsel someone against a specific course of action.

    "My financial advisor warned me against investing all my savings in a single stock."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'wiernan', meaning to refuse, deny, or prohibit, originating from Proto-Germanic '*warnōjaną' (to heed, take notice, or warn). Over centuries, the meaning shifted from withholding or prohibiting to informing someone in advance of danger, impending evil, or possible harm.

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