bookworm ([identity profile] readsalot.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] readsalot 2007-02-22 04:52 pm (UTC)

Ack

Ok, now I know just how tired I was last night, because okiru/okosu is "to wake up", not "to sleep". However, "to sleep" does have a transitive version--it translates as "to put to bed" (and also apparently, "to ferment", at least according to the online dictionary I use.)

It's a fun dictionary to browse through--apparently turning over in bed is the same thing as betrayal. (I did a search based on the kanji for "to sleep" to find all the words that use it.)

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