つとめ – Vocabulary details

つとめ

Noun

1. service; duty; business; responsibility; task

2. Buddhist religious services

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とめ

one's business; reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha; bargain; discount; (arch.) money paid to a prostitute or geisha

to serve out one's apprenticeship; to serve out one's time

place of work

one's business; one's duties

assiduity; conduct

office worker; salaried worker; white-collar worker

to work diligently

mercenary spirit

to carry on (work)

毎まい日にちのつとめを怠おこたるな。

Don't fail in your daily duties.

彼かの女じょのつとめは子こ供どもたちの世せ話わをすることであった。

Her duty was to look after the children.

つとめを怠おこたったと言いって彼かれは私わたしをとがめた。

He blamed me for neglecting my duty.

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