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まぶた

eyelid

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Examples

  1. 眠くてまぶたが重い。

    ねむくてまぶたがおもい。

    I'm so sleepy my eyelids feel heavy.

  2. 一生懸命指でまぶたを広げて目薬をさしました。

    いっしょうけんめいゆびでまぶたをひろげてめぐすりをさしました。

    With great effort I held his eyelids open with my fingers and put the eye drops in.

  3. 母の顔が今もまぶたに浮かぶ。

    ははのかおがいまもまぶたにうかぶ。

    My mother's face still comes back to me vividly.

Common patterns

まぶたが重い
eyelids feel heavy (sleepy)
まぶたを閉じる
to close one's eyes
まぶたに浮かぶ
to come vividly to mind

Memory tip

Written 瞼 — 目 (eye) plus 蓋 (lid). The idiom 〜がまぶたに浮かぶ means a face or scene rises before your mind's eye, not that you actually see it.

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