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使う, 遣う
JLPT 5

Kana Reading
つかう
Word Senses
- Parts of speech
  
  Godan verb with `u' ending, transitive verb
  
  Meaning
  
  to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use
  
  Example sentence
  
  今まで使っていたものを今朝部屋でボール遊びをしていて、わってしまったのです。 I broke the one I've been using till now this morning while playing with a ball in the room.
- Parts of speech
  
  Meaning
  
  to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate
  
  Example sentence
  
  アジア諸国などから出稼ぎにきた外国人をメイドとして使うのが常識のようになっている。 It has become common practise to employ foreigners working abroad from Asian countries as maids.
- Parts of speech
  
  Meaning
  
  to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume
  
  Example sentence
  
  ここで使われている文法形式は未来進行形である。 The grammatical form employed here is the present progressive.
- Parts of speech
  
  Meaning
  
  to use (language); to speak
  
  Example sentence
  
  テクトロニクスの新ソフトウェアは、ロジック・アナライザを使う顧客のニーズにまさしく応えるものです。 Tektronix's new software perfectly responds to the needs of customers using logic analysers.
- Parts of speech
  
  Meaning
  
  to take (one's lunch); to circulate (bad money)
  
  Example sentence
  
  良い医者は患者に説明する時、人体模型を使うなどして、わかりやすく説明してくれる。 Good doctors explain things to patients in easily understandable ways, using anatomical models and such.
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Reading and JLPT level

初めて, 始めて, 甫めて
JLPT 5

Kana Reading
はじめて
Word Senses
- Parts of speech
  
  adverb (fukushi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
  
  Meaning
  
  for the first time
  
  Example sentence
  
  凄いです！こんな感動的な話は初めてです！まさに美談の中の美談です！ Amazing! This moving a story is a first for me! It's truly an epic among epics!
- Parts of speech
  
  adverb (fukushi)
  
  Meaning
  
  only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...
  
  Example sentence
  
  初めて催眠に入る人の場合、とても浅い催眠状態から、覚醒してもらって、催眠状態と普通に覚醒した状態とを比べてもらうことがよくあります。 When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised.
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Reading and JLPT level

始まる
JLPT 5

Kana Reading
はじまる
Word Senses
- Parts of speech
  
  Godan verb with `ru' ending, intransitive verb
  
  Meaning
  
  to begin
  
  Example sentence
  
  授業は八時三十分から始まるから。 Class doesn't begin until eight-thirty.
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Kanji

47 kanji found

使 JLPT 4

8 strokes

use, send on a mission, order, messenger, envoy, ambassador, cause

On'Yomi: シ

Kun'Yomi: つか.う, つか.い, -つか.い, -づか.い

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史 JLPT 2

5 strokes

history, chronicle

On'Yomi: シ

Kun'Yomi:

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始 JLPT 4

8 strokes

commence, begin

On'Yomi: シ

Kun'Yomi: はじ.める, -はじ.める, はじ.まる

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