Lingaku持つ【もつ】
Frequency rank: 118.
- to hold (in one's hand); to take; to carry
- to possess; to have; to own
- to maintain; to keep
- to last; to be durable; to keep; to survive
- to take charge of; to be in charge of
- to hold (meeting, etc.); to have (opportunity, etc.)
- to have "it"; to have that special something; to be blessed with good luckcolloquialismesp. as 持ってる
Godan verb with 'tsu' ending; transitive verb
Godan verb with 'tsu' ending
Forms
- 持つ【もつ】Frequency rank: 118.
- もつFrequency rank: 4,057. – 4,061.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- to hold (in one's hand); to take; to carry
- to possess; to have; to own
- to maintain; to keep
- to last; to be durable; to keep; to survive
- to take charge of; to be in charge of
- to hold (meeting, etc.); to have (opportunity, etc.)
- to have "it"; to have that special something; to be blessed with good luck
This usage refers to physically holding, taking, or carrying something in one's hand.
He is holding a banana.
This usage refers to having something as one's own possession.
This usage means to maintain or keep something in a certain state.
This usage emphasizes the durability or longevity of something.
This meaning is used when one is responsible for overseeing or managing something.
He is in charge of the project.
The new manager took charge of the company.
This usage refers to organizing or hosting a meeting, event, or having the chance to do something.
Let's have a meeting.
This meaning implies having a special quality, talent, or being fortunate.
She has it as a sports player.
Those who have good luck are blessed with fortune.
Generated collocations (experimental)
もつ持つきごう(もつきごう)to hold (in one's hand); to take; to carryもちもの持ち物belongingsじかん時間をもつ持つto have timeせきにんをもつ責任を持つto take responsibilityじしん自信をもつ持つto have confidenceちから力をもつ持つto have powerきかい機会をもつ持つto have an opportunityかいぎ会議をもつ持つto hold a meetingともだち友達をもつ持つto have friendsけいけん経験をもつ持つto have experienceしんねん信念をもつ持つto have a beliefもの物をもつ持つto carry thingsきぼう希望をもつ持つto have hopeもつ持つべきものwhat one should possessながもち長持ちするto last longとくべつ特別なものをもつ持つto have something special
Example sentences
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Communism will never be reached in my lifetime.
To have doubts about oneself is the first sign of intelligence.
Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.
When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true.
Give me time to give you everything I have!
How can you have a laptop and not a cell phone?
People who don't have a computer can't make full use of this MP3 player function.
14. ひと人がにくたい肉体をもち持ち、ちじょう地上にうまれた生まれたからといって、ちじょう地上のことをすべて全てりかい理解するわけではないのとどうように同様に、しんだ死んだからといってれいてき霊的せかい世界をすべて全てりかい理解しているわけでもないのです。
Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.
A qilin with a king too has no limit on its lifespan, but this illness alone admits of no remedy.
Companions with the same aim, to carve out their own future, cooperate with each other.
Whenever I go to a Japanese restaurant, I take the disposable chopsticks home with me.
'can' is an auxiliary verb, so in question sentences it is brought to the start of the phrase.
You couldn't tell it by looking, but she has the legendary tale of having eaten two whole cakes when a child.