JLPT N3 Vocabulary

間違う（まちがう）

to be wrong; to make a mistake

Reading: まちがう
Sino-Vietnamese: gian vi
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Intransitive and transitive verb: 答えが間違う (the answer is wrong), 道を間違う (to take the wrong road). The noun is 間違い; the close transitive verb is 間違える (to make a mistake). The common form is 間違っている.

Examples

電話番号が間違っているようです。The phone number seems to be wrong.
駅で電車を間違って乗ってしまった。I got on the wrong train at the station.

Easily confused with

間違える
誤る
違う
ミス

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間違う（まちがう）

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間違う（まちがう）

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