Japanese Dictionary
Find Kanji by radicals
Find Kanji by selecting its radicals below.
- Reading and JLPT level
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為す, 成す, 生す JLPT 2
- Kana Reading
- なす
- Romaji
- nasu
- Word Senses
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Examples of 為す, 成す, 生す, なす in a sentence
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She has a faculty for doing two things at once.
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He has made a fortune through hard work.
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He made his mark as a writer with his very first novel.
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He has an ambition to make a name for himself as a writer.
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彼は会社をくびになったんだけど、わざわい転じて福となすで、見事独立したから偉いよ。
His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.
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He is bound to make a fortune.
Verb Conjugations
Non-Past
- Plain
- 為す
- Plain Polite
- 為します
- Negative
- 為さない
- Negative Polite
- 為しません
Past
- Plain
- 為した
- Plain Polite
- 為しました
- Negative
- 為さなかった
- Negative Polite
- 為しませんでした
Te
- Plain
- 為して
- Plain Polite
- 為しまして
- Negative
- --
- Negative Polite
- --
Passive
- Plain
- 為される
- Plain Polite
- 為されます
- Negative
- 為されない
- Negative Polite
- 為されません
Kanji in this word
9 strokes
do, change, make, benefit, welfare, be of use, reach to, try, practice, cost, serve as, good, advantage, as a result of
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