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jmdict 2008780 Active (id: 1100357)
違える
たがえる
1. [v1,vt]
▶ to change
▶ to alter
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1158890 違える【ちがえる】 3. to fail to keep (e.g. one's promise)
2. [v1,vt]
▶ to run counter to
▶ to go against
▶ to break (one's word)
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1158890 違える【ちがえる】 3. to fail to keep (e.g. one's promise)
3. [v1,vt]
▶ to make a mistake (in)
▶ to err

Conjugations


History:
3. A 2012-06-08 18:51:44  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2012-06-08 05:35:23  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Daijr, GG5, etc.
  Comments:
Not convinced that "be/not be punctual" is a meaning. The examples are all of the "時間をたがえない" variety, which is really an application of sense 2.
  Diff:
@@ -28,1 +28,0 @@
-<gloss>to be unpunctual</gloss>
1. A* 2012-06-07 21:49:16  Paul Upchurch <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daij, 新和英中辞典
  Comments:
Not sure what the best way to gloss the "unpunctual" sense is; it probably needs something in parentheses. 新和英中辞典 has an example, "分と時間をたがえない".
  Diff:
@@ -13,1 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>to break one's word</gloss>
+<gloss>to change</gloss>
+<gloss>to alter</gloss>
@@ -18,0 +19,9 @@
+<gloss>to run counter to</gloss>
+<gloss>to go against</gloss>
+<gloss>to break (one's word)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v1;</pos>
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<gloss>to make a mistake (in)</gloss>
+<gloss>to err</gloss>

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