First opened Thursday, November 5, 2020
真似る
まねる
- flat (heiban)
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 mimic, to imitate
Taken apart
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In a sentence
子供は親の癖をまねる。
Children imitate their parents' habits.
オウムは人間の言葉をまねる。
Parrots imitate human speech.
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What Wiktionary says
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