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お使い
おつかい
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errand
JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)polite (teineigo) language和語 · Native Japanese
Taken apart
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Written with 使
In a sentence
あの子はよくお使いをする。
The boy often runs errands.
お使いに行って来てちょうだい。
Will you go out on an errand?
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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.