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傭う

傭う

Japanese

Kanji in this term
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Verb

傭う (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana やとう, romaji yatou)

  1. Alternative form of 雇う
    • 1906, Natsume Sōseki, Botchan:
      それから (くるま) (やと)って中学校 (ちゅうがっこう) ()たら、もう放課後 (ほうかご) (だれ) ()ない。
      Sore kara kuruma o yatotte, chūgakkō e kitara, mō hōkago de dare mo inai.
      I then hired a rikisha and arrived at the middle school, but school was already over and nobody was there.

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