勤め – Vocabulary details

勤つとめ

Noun

1. service; duty; business; responsibility; task

2. Buddhist religious services

devotion to work

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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

place of work

office worker; salaried worker; white-collar worker

私わたしは毎まい日にち勤つとめに出でます。

I go to work every day.

万まん一いち勤つとめをやめたら、どうしますか。

If you were to quit your job, what would you do?

母ははは勤つとめの帰かえりに買かい物ものをします。

My mother does her usual shopping on her way home from work.

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