覗く
のぞく
to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.); to look down into (a ravine, etc.); to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.); to sneak a look at
JLPT N2 Common word
Meanings
Godan verb (-ku), Transitive
to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.)- to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
- to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
- to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
- to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)
All 7 meanings
Godan verb (-ku), Intransitive
to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)Godan verb (-ku), Transitive
to examine (an expression); to study (a face)
Rare and archaic meanings (1)
Godan verb (-ku), Intransitive
to faceArchaic
Forms
| Plain | Polite | |
|---|---|---|
| Present | 覗くのぞく | 覗きますのぞきます |
| Negative | 覗かないのぞかない | 覗きませんのぞきません |
| Past | 覗いたのぞいた | 覗きましたのぞきました |
| Past negative | 覗かなかったのぞかなかった | 覗きませんでしたのぞきませんでした |
| Te-form | 覗いてのぞいて |
|---|---|
| Potential | 覗けるのぞける |
| Passive | 覗かれるのぞかれる |
| Causative | 覗かせるのぞかせる |
| Volitional | 覗こうのぞこう |
| Imperative | 覗けのぞけ |
| Conditional (ば) | 覗けばのぞけば |
| Conditional (たら) | 覗いたらのぞいたら |
Example sentences
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I looked in the cupboard.
中を覗いてみたい？
Do you want to look into it?
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Don't look into my room.
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Do you want to look into it?
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Tom looked in the refrigerator.
More examples (10)
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You can see the sun peeking through the clouds.
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I peeped out through a crack in the wall.
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The neighbor popped his head up over the wall for a moment.
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He looked into her eyes and suddenly went away.
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Tom looked in the fridge to see what he could find to drink.
彼女が『今、覗いてたでしょう。この出歯亀野郎。』と怒りました。
"Just now, you were looking. You Peeping Tom," she said angrily.
どんな人でも一度はxvideos.comを覗いたことがあるはずだ。
Everyone has visited xvideos.com at least once.
被写体に気づかれないようにそぉっとカメラを取り出し、ファインダーを覗く。
I quietly take out my camera, so as not to be noticed by my photographic subject, and peek through the finder.
トムとメアリーは、お父さんがサンタクロースに扮装しているのを鍵穴から覗いて見ていた。
Tom and Mary watched through the keyhole as their father put on a Father Christmas costume.
僕は、僕の母の胎内にいるとき、お臍の穴から、僕の生れる家の中を、覗いてみて、 「こいつは、いけねえ」 と、思った。
When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "No way I'm going there".