🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

痩せた

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yaseta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lean/liːn/
verbadjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼は赤身の肉を好んで食べる。"

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To incline or bend from a vertical position.

    "He had to lean against the wall to catch his breath."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Thin, especially healthily so; containing little or no fat.

    "She prefers to buy lean cuts of beef."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Old English hlīnan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lenen and German lehnen, from an Indo-European root meaning 'to incline'.

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