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躓つまずく

usually written using kana alonegodan verbgodan verb (archaic)verb (generic)intransitive verb

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つまずく

Meanings

to trip (over), to stumble
to fail, to suffer a setback

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Example sentences

石いしに躓つまずいて転ころんでしまった。

I tripped over a stone and fell.

暗くらい廊下ろうかで躓つまずかないように気きをつけてください。

Please be careful not to trip in the dark hallway.

彼かれは最初さいしょの試験しけんで躓つまずいたが、諦あきらめずに勉強べんきょうを続つづけた。

He suffered a setback on his first exam, but continued studying without giving up.

新あたらしいプロジェクトの序盤じょばんで躓つまずいてしまい、チーム全員ぜんいんが焦あせり始はじめた。

The entire team started to panic after stumbling early in the new project.

人生じんせいにおいて躓つまずくことは避さけられないが、そこからいかに立たち直なおるかが重要じゅうようである。

Suffering setbacks in life is unavoidable, but what matters is how one recovers from them.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)