もがく: to struggle, to wriggle, to be impatient — Japanese vocabulary
もがく means "to struggle, to wriggle, to be impatient". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.
もがく
- Reading
- もがく · mogaku
- Translation
- to struggle, to wriggle, to be impatient
- Level
- JLPT N1
Example
地下鉄から出るのに私はもがいた。
ちかてつからでるのにわたしはもがいた。
I struggled to get out of the subway.
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