Translation guide
The act of bringing swallowed food back up to the mouth, either involuntarily (medical) or voluntarily (e.g., by some animals to feed young).
To describe the passive, effortless return of undigested food from the esophagus or stomach, often due to a medical condition.
General term for backflow or reflux, commonly used in medical contexts for regurgitation of food or acid.
食後に逆流が起こることがあります。
Regurgitation can occur after meals.
A plain, descriptive phrase meaning 'eaten food comes back up,' often used in everyday explanations of symptoms.
食べたものがすぐに戻ってくる感じがします。
I feel like the food I eat comes right back up.
Technical term for rumination; can refer to human regurgitation disorder (反芻症) but is rare and primarily used for animals.
反芻症は、無意識に食べ物を戻してしまう障害です。
Rumination syndrome is a disorder where food is unconsciously brought back up.
To describe animals bringing up food to feed their young or to chew cud.
Common phrase for animals regurgitating food, especially to feed offspring.
鳥がひなに餌を吐き戻して与える。
The bird regurgitates food to feed its chicks.
Specifically refers to rumination in animals like cows; not used for feeding young.
牛は反芻をして食べ物を再び噛む。
Cows ruminate and chew their food again.
To describe mindlessly repeating facts or ideas without understanding or originality.
Idiom meaning to parrot or repeat something one has heard without thinking; close to 'regurgitate' in the figurative sense.
彼はただ先生の意見を受け売りしているだけだ。
He's just regurgitating the teacher's opinions.
Literally 'memorize whole and spit out,' a vivid expression for rote regurgitation.
試験のために事実を丸暗記して吐き出すだけの勉強はよくない。
Studying just to memorize facts and regurgitate them for the exam is not good.
Literally 'parrot return,' meaning to repeat back exactly what was said, often used for mindless repetition.
Directly translating 'regurgitate' as 逆流する in figurative contexts will sound like a medical condition. Use 受け売り or おうむ返し instead.
彼はデータを逆流した。
He regurgitated the data. (unnatural)
彼の答えは教科書のおうむ返しだった。
His answer was just a regurgitation of the textbook.