Lingakuさかのぼる
Frequency rank: 29,319. – 29,535. (for form 遡る: 8,109. – 8,119.)
- to go upstreamword usually written using kana alone
- to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to; to make retroactiveword usually written using kana alone
Godan verb with 'ru' ending; intransitive verb
Forms
- さかのぼるFrequency rank: 29,319. – 29,535.
- 遡る【さかのぼる】Frequency rank: 8,109. – 8,119.
- 溯る【さかのぼる】
- 逆上る【さかのぼる】
- 泝る【さかのぼる】
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Example sentences
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It is said that the castle dates back to the 11th century.
3. こと事はひゃくねん百年まえ前、おおく多くのやといぬし雇い主がじゅうぎょういん従業員にちんぎん賃金をしきゅう支給していたほうほう方法にさかのぼる、とじんじか人事課しょくいん職員のぽうらポーラ・ぐれいそんグレイソンさんははなして話してくれました。
It goes back, Personnel Officer Paula Grayson told us, to the way many employers used to pay their employees a hundred years ago.
To the best of my knowledge, the cathedral dates back to the Middle Ages.
Some of the oldest Chinese chopsticks date from 1200 B.C.
It is considered impossible to travel back to the past.
The decline can be traced to the 1950s.
We must go back to the Middle Ages to trace the origin.
This book says the earliest man-made bridges date back to the New Stone Age.
This magnificent cathedral dates back to the Middle Ages.
20. ちょうきち長吉はおなじよう同じようなそのふゆ冬のことし今年ときょねん去年、きょねん去年とそのぜんねん前年、それからそれといくねん幾年もさかのぼって溯ってなんこころなく何心なくかんがえて考えてみる見ると、ひと人はせいちょう成長するにしたがって従っていかにこうふく幸福をうしなって失っていく行くものかをあきらか明かにけいけん経験した。
When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness.