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Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
めん
Grade: 3
goon

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()(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

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()(めん)する (kumen surusuru (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, 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

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN