読む – 28 Japanese Verbs for Reading
The word for read in Japanese is 読む(よむ、) . You can take this word and combine it with other verbs to create a compound verb to express even more specific ideas related to reading.
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Compound verbs are just two verbs stuck together. If you translate these from Japanese to English there is not always an exact equivalent. However, the list I provided below gives a close translation or explanation of what the word means.
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Word List for 読む
| 読み解く | よみとく | decipher, analyze or read something to deeply understand it |
| 読み返す | よみかえす | Reread |
| 読み込む | よみこむ | load computer data or read from computer memory |
| 読み上げる | よみあげる | Read out loud |
| 読み進める | よみすすめる | continue reading, to read from one direction (right to left, up to down) to the other |
| 読み替える | よみかえる | read something with a different pronunciation (for example Kanji); reinterpret some situation a different way (a failure as a success for example) |
| 読み聞かせる | よみきかせる | Read out loud to someone |
| 読み進む | よみすすむ | go on reading |
| 読み出す | よみだす | read out or retrieve data on a computer |
| 読み漁る | よみあさる | read a large amount of information about something |
| 読みふける | よみふける | It is absorbed in reading |
| 読み飛ばす | よみとばす | skim |
| 読み違える | よみちがえる | Misread |
| 読み比べる | よみくらべる | read and compare two things |
| 読みこなす | よみこなす | read and understand something well |
| 読み流す | よみながす | read something smoothly or to skim |
| 読み通す | よみとおす | read through to the end |
| 読み誤る | よみあやまる | misread |
| 読み落とす | よみおとす | Overlook in reading |
| 読み継ぐ | よみつぐ | for many readers to read something in succession |
| 読み分ける | よみわける | Be able to read the same characters differently based on the context |
| 読み飽きる | よみあきる | I get tired of reading |
| 読み合わせる | よみあわせる | verify two documents or accounts are the same |
| 読み過ごす | よみすごす | read over |
| 読みさす | よみさす | to quit reading something |
| 読み捨てる | よみすてる | to read something once and never read it again |
| 読み散らす | よみちらす | to randomly read a bunch of stuff here and there |
| 読み破る | よみやぶる | read through a difficult book |
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