渡す (わたす, watasu) Japanese meaning: ferry across | Kotomora

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渡す · godan verb (-su)

Meanings

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

ferry across; carry across; traverse

Used for moving people or things across a body of water, a bridge, or a similar obstacle.

渡わたるN5
渡る is intransitive (to cross over) while 渡す is transitive (to make something cross or hand it over).

手て渡わたす sense 3
手渡す stresses handing something directly in person, while 渡す is the more general, neutral word for handing over.
与あたえるN3sense 3
与える is a more formal word for giving or granting something, often abstract, while 渡す is the everyday word for physically handing something over.
譲ゆずるN3sense 3
譲る means to transfer ownership or yield something (like a seat or right), whereas 渡す simply means to hand something to someone without implying giving it up permanently.
引ひき渡わたす
渡す is the plain, everyday word for handing something to someone, while 引き渡す adds a sense of formally completing a transfer of custody or possession.

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届とどけるN4
渡す means to hand something over directly to a person, while 届ける implies transporting it to reach someone or somewhere.
握にぎらす
握らす implies physically pressing an object into someone's grip, whereas 渡す simply means to hand something over without that nuance of enclosing the fingers.
譲ゆずり渡わたす
渡す simply means to hand something over physically, whereas 譲り渡す adds the legal or formal nuance of transferring ownership or rights.
よこすN2
渡す means to hand something over to someone in general, whereas 寄越す carries the added nuance that the object comes toward the speaker.

受うけ取とるN3sense 3
受け取る means to receive, the opposite action of 渡す, which means to hand over.

Derived from the intransitive verb 渡る (to cross). The transitive form 渡す originally meant 'to make something cross', later extending to 'hand over'.