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Source Word

揺蕩う

Hiragana
たゆたう
Verb
Japanese Meaning
液体や空気の中で、一定せずにゆっくりと動くさまを表す。「波間に小舟が揺蕩う」など。 / 心や気持ちが定まらず、迷い動く状態を表す。「進路選択に心が揺蕩う」など。 / 決断できずにぐずぐずと迷って時間を過ごすさま。「その場に立ち尽くして揺蕩う」など。
Easy Japanese Meaning
ゆらゆらとゆれるようにうごくことや、きもちがきまらずまよっているようす
What is this buttons?

From the shore, I silently watched the lanterns drifting and gently bobbing on the river surface.

What is this buttons?
Sense(1)

to bob, to move about uncertainly as a floating item moves about on the surface of water or some other liquid

Sense(2)

to be undecided or uncertain

Sense(3)

to pause or hesitate due to indecision, to dally, to dawdle

canonical

romanization

romanization

stem

past

hiragana historical

table-tags

inflection-template

imperfective stem

imperfective stem

imperfective

continuative stem

continuative stem

continuative

stem terminative

stem terminative

terminative

attributive stem

attributive stem

attributive

hypothetical stem

hypothetical stem

hypothetical

imperative stem

imperative stem

imperative

passive

passive

passive

causative

causative

causative

causative

causative

causative

potential

potential

potential

volitional

volitional

volitional

negative

negative

negative

continuative negative

continuative negative

continuative negative

formal

formal

formal

perfective

perfective

perfective

conjunctive

conjunctive

conjunctive

conditional hypothetical

conditional hypothetical

conditional hypothetical

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