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分かる・わかる (karu wakaru)

To understand or grasp something

Meaning & usage

分かる means to understand, grasp, or know something, and is used when information becomes clear to the speaker. The thing understood takes が, as in 日本語が分かる, 言ったことが分かる, or どこに行くか分かる, not を. It is a regular godan verb that conjugates as 分からない, 分かった, and 分かっている, with the ている form often meaning already know.

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