越える【こえる】
Frequency rank: 2,096. (for form 超える: 1,030.)
- to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to pass over (out of); to go beyond; to go pastesp. 越える
- to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)esp. 超える
Ichidan verb; transitive verb
Forms
Generated definitions (experimental)
- to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to pass over (out of); to go beyond; to go past
- to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
This meaning is used when physically crossing over a distance or boundary.
This meaning is used when something is greater or more than a certain limit or standard.
Generated collocations (experimental)
こえる越えることができるto be able to cross overげんかい限界をこえる越えるto exceed limitsきたい期待をこえる越えるto surpass expectationsじだい時代をこえる越えるto transcend generationsこっきょう国境をこえる越えるto cross national bordersこえられない越えられないかべ壁an insurmountable barrierしょうがい障害をこえる越えるto overcome obstaclesこのすうち数値をこえる越えるto exceed this valueこえる越えるべきかだい課題challenges to overcomeきょうかい境界をこえる越えるto cross boundaries
Example sentences
145 results
With 19 cases of death forming over 20% of the whole, the grave reality of overwork-deaths has been thrown into relief.
It goes without saying that at that time a kind of friendship beyond master and disciple grew between the two of them.
Surpassing labour intensive, capital intensive, the age has shifted greatly to knowledge intensive.
Including responses up to 'It bothers me a bit', over 70% of respondents said that they were concerned about their pores and skin texture.
Transcending time, the insects of ages gone past dance livelily in amber.
7. きごう「それをのりこえて乗り越えて、はじめて初めてしょうねん少年はおとこ男にうんちゃらかんちゃらですきごう」きごう「なん何となくよさげなこと事をいおう言おうってんなら、さいご最後までちゃんといえよ言えよきごう!きごう」
"It is when you overcome that, that a boy becomes something-something" "If you're trying to say something important sounding keep talking right to the end!"
Exporting is a commercial activity which transcends borders.
If my father had not been killed in the war, he would be over sixty years old now.
She looks young. But actually, she's over forty.
She can't be over thirty; she must still be in her twenties.