First opened Tuesday, March 8, 2022
取り付ける
とりつける
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 4
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to furnish, to install; to get someone's agreement
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼は壁に本棚を取り付けた。
He fixed the bookshelf to the wall.
彼らはその標識を壁に取り付けた。
They fixed the sign to the wall.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.