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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

乗る

Pronunciation / Transliteration: noru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ride/raɪd/
verbnounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #850 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼は自転車に乗るのが好きです。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To sit on and control the movement of an animal, bicycle, or motorcycle.

    "She learned to ride a bicycle when she was six years old."
As noun
  1. 1

    A journey made on a horse, bicycle, or in a vehicle.

    "They went for a long car ride in the countryside."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English rīdan, meaning 'to ride on horseback', of Germanic origin (from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną). Over time, the meaning expanded beyond equitation to include traveling in vehicles, operating amusement devices, and metaphorically dominating or being controlled by forces.

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