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[ bɛd​͡​ʒ ]
Verb

English: watch

German: schauen, mit den Augen beobachten

Spanish: mirar

Japanese: じっと見るじっとみる, 見張るみはる

Source: TKD (80 KE, 160 EK)

KLCP Level: 1

Verb (slang)

English: be sure, be definite, be positive, be certain

Japanese: 確信してかくしんして, 明らかな (俗語)あきらかな (ぞくご)

Source: TKD (80 KE, 160 EK)

KLCP Level: 2

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Notes

This slang can take an object.

The verb bej literally means "watch," though its slang usage is probably influenced by the verb suffix -bej ("certainly, undoubtedly"; compare voq, "trust," and voqbej, "certainly trust"). It is used in such forms as jIbej ("I am positive [about something I just said]"---literally, "I watch" [jI-, "I"]) or bIbej'a'? ("Are you sure?"---literally, "Do you watch?" [bI-, "you"; -'a', interrogative).

Unlike the verb na' ("be salty"), which has an identical slang meaning, the verb bej may be used when there is an object: HIvrup 'e' vIbej ("I am positive they're ready to attack"; literally, "I watch that they're ready to attack"; HIv, "[they] attack"; -rup, "ready"; 'e', "that"; vI-, "I [do something to] it"). The notions expressed by bej can be conveyed without slang with a word such as Honbe' ("not doubt") or by making use of the verb suffix -bej, as in HIvrupbej ("They're certainly ready to attack").

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