かえる

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Japanese

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Etymology 1

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For pronunciation and definitions of かえる – see the following entries.
【蛙】H
[noun] a frog (amphibious animal)
Alternative spellings
蛤, 蝦, カエル
【換える】
[verb] exchange, change for
【替える】
[verb] substitute, replace
【代える】
[verb] substitute, use in place of, replace with, replace something with another
【変える】
[verb] to change, to make different
[verb] to move or shift to a different time or place
【帰る】
[verb] to go home, return
[verb] to leave, walk away
[verb] (baseball) to get to home plate
Alternative spelling
還る
【孵る】
[verb] hatch (emerge from an egg)
【返る】
[verb] to return, go back
[verb] to reverse, turn over
[verb] to move in the opposite direction
[verb] to interchange front and back
[verb] to change color, fade
[verb] (of a year) to renew
[verb] (by extension) to start over
[verb] suffixed to the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of a verb:
[verb] to [verb] completely
[verb] to [verb] over and over or repeatedly
【反る】
[verb] come back
(This term, かえる (kaeru), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as かえる, see Category:Japanese kanji read as かえる.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 易える.)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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かえる • (kaeru) 

  1. potential form of かう (kau) [godan]
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