Lingaku売れる【うれる】
Frequency rank: 3,074.
- to sell (well)see also 売る
- to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
Ichidan verb; intransitive verb
Forms
- 売れる【うれる】Frequency rank: 3,074.
- うれるFrequency rank: 50,150. – 51,356.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- to sell (well)
- to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
This meaning refers to the ability of a product or item to be sold successfully in the market. It implies that there is high demand and that the item is attractive to consumers.
The new smartphone sells quickly.
This meaning is used to describe a person, place, or thing that has gained a significant amount of recognition or popularity among people.
Generated collocations (experimental)
Example sentences
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1. ひっし必死でかんがえた考えたきかく企画はきゃっか却下、いっしょうけんめい一生懸命つくった作ったほん本はうれない売れない。やました山下さんははっぽうふさがり八方塞がりのじょうたい状態におちいっている陥っている。
Yamashita is stuck with no way out. His well-thought-out project was rejected and the books he worked really hard on aren't selling.
He is badly off, because his book doesn't sell well.
A good many of the pictures on exhibition were sold on the opening day.
The Bible sells more than one million copies every year.
She couldn't be sold for gold or silver, so she just stayed there and watched.
It often happens that goods sell all the better for their high price.
What do you think are the best sellers of the latest Japanese records?
Don't get taken in by their advertising; I don't see how they can sell something like that for that price.
We arrived at that plan out of pure desperation, but the book sold well.
Investing money in your home has some merit; when it is time to sell it you can get more money.