Grow with Kitty

くろうする

苦労する

kurōsuru

very common

English

to have a hard time

नेपाली

दुःख गर्नु / कष्ट गर्नु

Examples

  1. 家探いえさがしにとても苦労くろうしました。

    I had a really hard time finding a place to live.

  2. 日本にほんに来きたばかりの頃ころは、言葉ことばに苦労くろうしたものです。

    When I first came to Japan, I used to have a really hard time with the language.

  3. 苦労くろうしたかいがあって、ようやく資格しかくを取得しゅとくできました。

    All my hard work paid off, and I finally got my qualification.

How to write it

Stroke order for each kanji — tap replay to watch again.

苦 8 strokes
労 7 strokes

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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