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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
めん
Grade: 3
goon

Pronunciation

Noun

()(めん) • (kumen) 

  1. contriving, managing (to do something)
  2. raising (money); gathering resources
    (かね)()(めん)
    kane no kumen
    gathering money; raising funds

Verb

()(めん)する • (kumen suru) suru (stem ()(めん) (kumen shi), past ()(めん)した (kumen shita))

  1. to manage, to contrive (a means of doing something)
  2. to scrape together (money or other resources)
    ()(もの)()(めん)する
    tabemono o kumen suru
    scrape up some food
    • 1924, Okamoto Kidō, Kidō gikyoku shū [Collected dramas], volume 5, page 342:
      ()(りょう)あまりといへば(たい)(きん)。それをどうして()(めん)する
      Go ryō amari to ieba taikin. Sore o dōshite kumen suru.
      At least five ryō is a lot of money. How can we put together that much.

Conjugation

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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