VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

食べる

たべる
hepburn taberu

to eat

Part of speech · ichidan-verb

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Examples

  1. 朝ご飯を食べます。
    I eat breakfast.
  2. 何を食べたいですか。
    What do you want to eat?

Collocations

ご飯を食べる朝ご飯を食べる食べたい食べてみる食べ物

Mnemonic

食べる taberu — kanji 食 (eat). An ichidan (group 2) verb: stem is 食べ, conjugates as 食べます (polite), 食べない (negative), 食べたい (want to eat). Smooth -ru drop pattern.

Quick check

  1. What is the polite (masu) form of 食べる?

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