In Japanese, "get up" is 立ち上がる (tachiagaru). It is a verb pronounced "tah-chee-ah-gah-roo".
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立ち上がる is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as tachiagaru, it sounds roughly like "tah-chee-ah-gah-roo" to an English ear.
週末に立ち上がりますつもりです。
Shuumatsu ni tachiagarimasu tsumori desu.
I plan to to get up this weekend.
立ち上がる means to get up in Japanese. This is an everyday verb that learners encounter early. Mastering its masu form (立ち上がります) and te-form opens up many sentence patterns.
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Buy on Steam立ち上がる is romanised as tachiagaru. Say it roughly like "tah-chee-ah-gah-roo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
立ち上がる is the plain (dictionary) form, used in casual speech and in dictionaries. For polite situations, verbs take a different ending, typically -masu. In Noun Town the game always shows the dictionary form.
立ち上がる is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
This word is part of the vocabulary taught in the Japanese language learning game Noun Town, where words are introduced through play rather than memorisation.
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