飛ばす

とばす · tobasu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan

to skip over

🦘 飛 = fly; 飛ばす = make it fly past, so you skip right over it

飛ぶ (tobu) means to fly. The -asu ending makes it causative: make something fly. Sending a page or step flying past without stopping on it is skipping or omitting it. Same verb for skipping a song: 曲を飛ばす.

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