乗り換える

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: S

Etymology

Compound of 乗り (nori, getting on, riding, from verb 乗る noru “to ride, to be on top of”) + 換える (kaeru, to exchange, to change).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

乗り換える (transitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana のりかえる, rōmaji norikaeru, historical hiragana のりかへる)

  1. transfer, change (e.g., a bus or a train)

Conjugation

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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