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jmdict 1177410 Active (id: 2200670)
猿も木から落ちる
【さるもきからおちる】

[exp,v1] [proverb]
▶ even monkeys fall from trees
▶ anyone can make a mistake
▶ pride comes before a fall
▶ even Homer sometimes nods

Conjugations

History:

6.	A 2022-08-01 04:02:33 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Add POS to proverbs -- via bulkupd.py --
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<pos>&v1;</pos>
5.	A 2022-07-17 01:59:35 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Hmmm. I guess so.
4.	A* 2022-07-16 17:19:37 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮ │ 猿も木から落ちる　 │ 7,332 │ 97.7% │ │ 猿も木から落ちます │ 27 │ 0.4% │ │ 猿も木から落ちた　 │ 112 │ 1.5% │ │ 猿も木から落ちて　 │ 33 │ 0.4% │ ╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
	Comments:	I think we should keep the [v1] tag since programs use this grammar information to de-inflect expressions.
3.	A 2017-03-06 16:38:09 Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
2.	A* 2017-03-06 14:33:08 Robin Scott
	Comments:	I don't think verb category tags apply to proverbs.
	Diff:	@@ -12 +12 @@ -<pos>&v1;</pos> +<misc>&proverb;</misc>
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1.	A 2010-11-23 05:04:32 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Added additional PoS via batch update.Added additional PoS via batch update. -- via bulkupd.py --
	Diff:	@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@ +<pos>&v1;</pos>

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jmdict 1177410 Rejected (id: 1067527)
猿も木から落ちる
【さるもきからおちる】

[exp,v1]
▶ [lit] even monkeys fall from trees
▶ anyone can make a mistake
▶ pride comes before a fall
▶ even Homer sometimes nods

Conjugations

History:

3.	R 2011-05-24 18:06:58 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	i don't think it's necessary here because that expression is now commonly used in english in the figurative sense (moreso than it is in the literal sense)
2.	A* 2011-05-24 13:41:10 Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	[lit]
	Diff:	@@ -13,1 +13,1 @@ -<gloss>even monkeys fall from trees</gloss> +<gloss g_type="lit">even monkeys fall from trees</gloss>
1.	A 2010-11-23 05:04:32 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Added additional PoS via batch update.Added additional PoS via batch update. -- via bulkupd.py --
	Diff:	@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@ +<pos>&v1;</pos>

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