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GET/v1/dictionary/jpn/entries/食べる200
curl 'https://api.immit.co/v1/dictionary/jpn/entries/食べる' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $IMMIT_API_KEY"
{
  "id": "9bebf0ab-36ee-4511-a271-f8d0a21efe31",
  "headword": "食べる",
  "lang": "jpn",
  "frequency_rank": 293,
  "pronunciations": [
    {
      "reading": "たべる",
      "accent": 2,
      "sounds": [
        {
          "mp3_url": "https://storage.immit.co/sounds/01M45PR236JEQ21RS26407FZ32.mp3",
          "voice": "Himari",
          // …
        }
      ],
      // …
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "pos": "動詞",
      "definition": "食物を口に入れ、かんで飲み込む。",
      "translations": {
        "eng": {
          "qualifier": null,
          "glosses": [
            {
              "text": "to eat",
              "readings": []
            },
            {
              "text": "to have (a meal)",
              "readings": []
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      // … homograph, pos_translations, examples, ids
    },
    // … 1 more sense
  ],
  "inflections": [
    {
      "text": "食べます",
      "form": "現在形",
      "tone": "polite",
      "polarity": "positive",
      // …
    },
    // … 42 more rows
  ],
  // … spellings, relations, updated_at
}
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One entry, two ways

What a learner sees in immit, and what your client receives. Same row, same fields.

食べる
たべる
Also written
  • 喰べるrare kanji
very common
動詞 / verb
  1. 1
    to eat, to have (a meal)
    1. 毎日野菜を食べるようにしている。
      I try to eat vegetables every day.
    2. 昼ご飯はもう食べましたか。
      Have you had lunch yet?
    3. 子供のころは魚が食べられなかった。
      When I was a child, I couldn't eat fish.
    Show related words
  2. 2
    to make a living, to live on, to get by
    1. 彼は音楽で食べている。
      He makes a living from music.
    2. この給料では家族四人が食べていけない。
      A family of four can't get by on this salary.
    3. 小説を書くだけで食べるのは難しい。
      It's hard to make a living from writing novels alone.
    Show related words
Show word forms・verb
present
食べる
past
食べた
volitional
食べよう
imperative
食べろ
potential
食べられる
passive
食べられる
causative
食べさせる
-te form
食べて
conditional
食べれば
conditional (-tara)
食べたら
stem
食べ
desire (-tai)
食べたい
desire, past (-takatta)
食べたかった
negative (-zu)
食べずnegative
negative (-nu)
食べぬnegative
negative conditional (-neba)
食べねばnegative
DictionaryEntry · 食べる · abridged
{
  "id": "9bebf0ab-36ee-4511-a271-f8d0a21efe31",
  "headword": "食べる",
  "lang": "jpn",
  "frequency_rank": 293,
  "updated_at": "2026-10-09T05:40:29.465156Z",
  "pronunciations": [
    {
      "id": "a92a963c-34c2-4cb4-ac3a-c992795b62d6",
      "homograph": 1,
      "reading": "たべる",
      "ipa": "",
      "accent": 2,
      "dialect": null,
      "sounds": [
        {
          "mp3_url": "https://storage.immit.co/sounds/01M45PR236JEQ21RS26407FZ32.mp3",
          "voice": "Himari",
          "gender": "female",
          "alphabet": "phonetic",
          // … id, key
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "spellings": [
    {
      "homograph": 1,
      "text": "喰べる",
      "label": "まれな漢字",
      "label_translations": {
        "eng": "rare kanji"
      },
      "inflection_texts": [
        "喰べ",
        // … 37 more texts
      ]
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "id": "b7081c6b-11d7-4980-b1dd-99d330e03dad",
      "homograph": 1,
      "pos": "動詞",
      "pos_translations": {
        "eng": "verb"
      },
      "definition": "食物を口に入れ、かんで飲み込む。",
      "translations": {
        "eng": {
          "qualifier": null,
          "glosses": [
            {
              "text": "to eat",
              "readings": []
            },
            {
              "text": "to have (a meal)",
              "readings": []
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "examples": [
        {
          "sentences": [
            {
              "lang": "eng",
              "text": "I try to eat vegetables every day.",
              // … id
            },
            {
              "lang": "jpn",
              "text": "毎日野菜を食べるようにしている。",
              // … id
            }
          ],
          // … id
        },
        // … 2 more examples
      ]
    },
    // … 1 more sense
  ],
  "inflections": [
    {
      "text": "食べる",
      "form": "現在形",
      "form_translations": {
        "eng": "present"
      },
      "tone": "plain",
      "polarity": "positive",
      "pronunciations": [
        {
          "reading": "たべる",
          // …
        }
      ],
      // … id, pos, homograph, form_sequence
    },
    {
      "text": "食べます",
      "form": "現在形",
      "form_translations": {
        "eng": "present"
      },
      "tone": "polite",
      "polarity": "positive",
      "pronunciations": [
        {
          "reading": "たべます",
          // …
        }
      ],
      // … id, pos, homograph, form_sequence
    },
    {
      "text": "食べない",
      "form": "現在形",
      "form_translations": {
        "eng": "present"
      },
      "tone": "plain",
      "polarity": "negative",
      "pronunciations": [
        {
          "reading": "たべない",
          // …
        }
      ],
      // … id, pos, homograph, form_sequence
    },
    // … 40 more rows
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "sense_id": "b7081c6b-11d7-4980-b1dd-99d330e03dad",
      "kind": "synonym",
      "headword": "食う",
      "entry_id": "d2bf0807-33aa-434b-bfb0-d1b3ba4b2444",
      "homograph": 1,
      "pos": "動詞"
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "b7081c6b-11d7-4980-b1dd-99d330e03dad",
      "kind": "synonym",
      "headword": "召し上がる",
      "entry_id": "d625a5e9-5d64-4f01-994c-f11dcf4820e9",
      "homograph": 1,
      "pos": "動詞"
    },
    // … 3 more relations
  ]
}

  • One shape, two languages

    Every entry carries the same fields whether the headword is English or Japanese, so a client renders both with one component.

  • Every form resolves

    Look up the form a reader met and get the base form and the whole table back, so a client never deinflects.

  • Audio, pitch accent, frequency

    Pronunciation audio, Japanese pitch accent, parallel example sentences and a frequency rank on every entry.

What an entry carries

The same fields for both languages. What a language does not have is null or empty, never missing.

Field by field in the docs
What it holdsengjpn
headwordlang
The canonical form and its language. A case or spelling variant resolves to it.		YesYes
senses[]
Part of speech, a definition in the entry's own language, translations keyed by language with glosses and kana readings, and parallel example pairs.		YesYes
inflections[]
Every form as a row: the text, the form name and its translation, polarity and tone, with its own reading.		YesYes
pronunciations[]
IPA and dialect for English, kana reading and pitch accent for Japanese, with sounds[] that carry a playable mp3_url.		YesYes
spellings[]
Other written forms of the same word, with a label such as rare kanji, and the texts that inflect them.		rareYes
relations[]
Synonyms and antonyms per sense, each pointing at another entry.		YesYes
frequency_rank
1 is the most frequent entry of its language. Null when unranked.		YesYes

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