食べる

• 読み: たべる
• ローマ字: taberu
• 漢字の分解: 食 (shoku/ta) — food, to eat
• 発音: /ta.be.ɾɯ/

意味

To eat; to consume food. One of the most essential daily-life verbs in Japanese.

A Group 2 (ichidan) transitive verb conjugated by dropping る and adding the appropriate ending (e.g. 食べます, 食べた, 食べない). Used for all types of eating, from casual snacking to formal dining. Pairs naturally with the particle を to mark what is being eaten.

例文

1. 毎朝パンを食べます。
2. 昨日レストランで寿司を食べた。
3. 辛いものが食べられない。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, restaurants, cooking

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. The kanji 食 represents eating, depicting a person sitting before a vessel of food. Historically related to the classical form 食ぶ (tabu).

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal