jmdict 2009880 Active (id#2323597)
娶る
めとる
  1. [v5r,vt]
    • to marry (a woman)
    • to take to wife
    • to take in marriage
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 1266440 呼ぶ【よぶ】 6. to take as one's wife
History:
    • A 2024-11-22 06:09:08 Jim Breen (id#2323597)
    • A* 2024-11-21 20:33:43 parfait8 (id#2323514)
    • Comments
      doesn't seem [uk]
    • Refs
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
      │ 娶る  │ 8,501 │ 57.8% │
      │ めとる │ 6,200 │ 42.2% │
      ╰─ーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
      Kyoto/Melbourne N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーー─┬─────┬───────╮
      │ 娶る  │ 549 │ 65.7% │
      │ めとる │ 287 │ 34.3% │
      ╰─ーーー─┴─────┴───────╯
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
      │ 妻を娶る  │ 1,544 │ 60.5% │
      │ 妻をめとる │ 1,009 │ 39.5% │
      ╰─ーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
      │ 妻を娶っ  │ 1,479 │ 56.6% │
      │ 妻をめとっ │ 1,136 │ 43.4% │
      ╰─ーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
      │ を娶る  │ 6,783 │ 76.1% │
      │ をめとる │ 2,132 │ 23.9% │
      ╰─ーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
      │ を娶っ  │ 9,216 │ 72.8% │
      │ をめとっ │ 3,435 │ 27.2% │
      ╰─ーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -13 +12,0 @@
      -<misc>&uk;</misc>
    • A 2017-10-14 20:24:11 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      Tanaka too.
    • A* 2017-10-14 16:33:29 Robin Scott
    • Comments
      JE examples are in kana.
    • Refs
      gg5, prog
    • Diff
      @@ -12,0 +13 @@
      +<misc>&uk;</misc>
      @@ -14,0 +16 @@
      +<gloss>to take in marriage</gloss>
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