Not so useful Japanese Lesson 1 – Abduct

Posted on 22. Oct, 2006 @ 9:40 pm by in Humor, Language Views: 238

A verb which can means “abduct” in Japanese is, SARAU.

Hiragana: さらう

Kanji: 浚う

If you ask a Japanese person to write the kanji for this verb for you 「浚 」, chances are they won’t be able to. The character is not used often enough for people to remember how to write. Japanese is funny like that.
If you check our favorite online dictionary, ALC. You can get an excellent example sentence.

  • 女性を浚う悪鬼
  • maiden-abducting goblin

Excellent. “Jyosei wo sarau akki.”

Now you can say “maiden-abducting goblin” in Japanese.

Disclaimer: There are in fact other words for “abduct” or “kidnap” in Japanese that are in fact used often. Sadly, much too often given the proximity of Japan to North Korea.

Stay tuned for another useless language lesson.

- Harvey

  • http://yes-i-love-love.blogspot.com Craig

    LOL my favourite kind of Japanese language lesson :P

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    There will be a test soon. Be sure you can create your own sentences with this word.

  • Craig

    The Japanese don’t seem very fond of spaces inbetween words… what’s that about Harvey?

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Carig, check it out.
    http://www.asahi.com/
    Usually there are no spaces in between words in Japanese.

    Chinese is the same. I believe Korean is as well.

    It’s just the way it is!

  • Craig

    It-is-like-as-if-I-typed-everything-like-this.

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    You’d also have to remove those hyphens

  • Craig

    Ohmannoway! Ihaveanewfound respectfortheJapanese :P

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