First opened Thursday, October 5, 2017
引っ張る
ひっぱる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to pull, to stretch, to drag
Taken apart
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In a sentence
引っ張るぞ。
We're going to pull it.
彼はロープを引っ張った。
He pulled the rope.
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What Wiktionary says
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