止まる

Kana: とまる

to stop

Example sentence

電車が駅で止まると、人が降ります。

でんしゃがえきでとまると、ひとがおります。

When the train stops at the station, people get off.

What 止まる means

止まる (とまる) is a Japanese word meaning “to stop”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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