かえる

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Japanese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Verb

かえる • (kaeru) 

  1. potential form of かう (kau)
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