しょうどう · shoudou
impulse, urge
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Example sentences
はでたいにれた。 Boku wa oogoe de sakebitai shoudou ni karareta.
I felt an impulse to cry out loud.
をたいとをのはた。 Tomu o shimekoroshitai to iu shoudou o osaeruno wa muzukashikatta.
It was hard to resist the impulse to wring Tom's neck.
Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR, licensed for reuse.