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立派 Day 22 · 8 / 10 交換

ことわる

断る

kotowaru

very common

English

To refuse, To decline

नेपाली

अस्वीकार गर्नु

Examples

  1. 忙いそがしかったので、その誘さそいを断ことわりました。

    I was busy, so I turned down the invitation.

  2. 残業ざんぎょうを断ことわりました。

    I refused to do overtime.

  3. 店長てんちょうの頼たのみなので、断ことわるわけにはいかない。

    Since it's the store manager asking, I can't very well refuse.

How to write it

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

断 11 strokes

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

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