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現す
Meaning in Englishshow, reveal, make visible
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What it means
現す means to bring into sight or make perceptible by presenting or expressing something that exists or is imagined, turning it into a visible or tangible form.
Main meanings
- to reveal something hidden or not yet visible
- to express or display an emotion, quality, or fact through action, speech, or appearance
- to manifest or demonstrate a phenomenon in a tangible or narrative sense
- to indicate or show something indirectly through description or portrayal
How to use it
Used as a transitive verb in formal and everyday contexts to reveal or make visible; common in written narrative, journalism, and technical writing; structured as Xを現す with concrete objects or ideas; in casual speech speakers may prefer 表す or 見せる for similar meaning.
Variants and close terms
- 表す (arawasu) — to express, reveal
- 示す (shimesu) — to indicate, demonstrate
- 顕す (arawasu) — to reveal, make apparent (rare)
Composition
- 現: present, appear, reality
- す: verb-ending that turns the word into a verb
Etymology
現 denotes the present or appearance, and す is the verb ending; together they form a native Japanese verb meaning to make something present or to reveal.
Word class
verb (godan)
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