ながれ

流 れ

Common word

  1. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    flow (of a fluid or gas), stream, current

    • 流れは池に注いでいる。
      The stream falls into the pond.

  2. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    flow (of people, things), passage (of time), tide, passing, (changing) trends, tendency

    • 田中さんの教えるのは歴史の流れに逆らう。
      Tanaka's teaching goes against the stream of history.

  3. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    course (of events), (step-by-step) procedure, process

    • こういう流れになると結局、どんぐりの背比べになる。
      Once things start going this way, in the end they'll all be much of a muchness.

  4. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    group of people who remain together after the end of an event

  5. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    descent, ancestry, school

    • 社会エコロジーが現代の環境保護の第２の流れであるという観点を特に強調しておきたい。
      I would like to put special emphasis on the concept that social ecology is the second school of contemporary environmentalism.

  6. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    forfeiture, foreclosure

  7. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    cancellation
    usu. as お流れ

  8. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    drifting, wandering, roaming