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What is the difference between 絡む and 絡まる ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 絡む and 絡まる ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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4 Oct 2015
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This is tricky.
To mean "tangle up", both words can be used.
糸が絡む、糸が絡まる。no difference here.
絡む has another meaning, "involve in a difficult way"
この事件には金銭問題が絡んでいる。
電車で、よっぱらいがぼくに絡んできた。
絡まる cannot be used for the second meaning.
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- Japanese
This is tricky.
To mean "tangle up", both words can be used.
糸が絡む、糸が絡まる。no difference here.
絡む has another meaning, "involve in a difficult way"
この事件には金銭問題が絡んでいる。
電車で、よっぱらいがぼくに絡んできた。
絡まる cannot be used for the second meaning.
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