Look out!
Handle with care. These sentences were provided by
the Tanaka Corpus
and may not all be 100% accurate
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
おんどりよりもめんどりの方が大声で鳴く家は悲しい家だ。
Cats go mew, mew.
猫はにゃーにゃーと鳴く。
Birds sing.
鳥は鳴く。
What noise do giraffes make?
キリンってなんて鳴くんだろう?
What sound does a sheep make?
羊は何て鳴くの?
The rooster crows at sunrise.
オンドリは日の出に鳴く。
I spent that day listening to the lonely scrapings of a pen. During that time, from time to time, I heard a Java sparrow twittering. It occurred to me that maybe Java sparrows twitter out of loneliness too. I walked out to the veranda to see. Nevertheless