流れ

ながれ

[nagare]

Meanings

1.Noun

flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; current

2.Noun

flow (of people, things); passage (of time); tide; passing; (changing) trends; tendency

3.Noun

course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; process

4.Noun

group of people who remain together after the end of an event

5.Noun

descent; ancestry; school

6.Noun

《finance》forfeiture; foreclosure

7.Noun

cancellation

8.Noun

drifting; wandering; roaming

川の流れをじっと眺めていた。

I was staring at the flow of the river.

時間の流れは誰にも止められない。

The flow of time cannot be stopped.

話の流れで秘密がばれた。

The secret came out in the flow of conversation.