すえる – Vocabulary details

すえる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to place (in position); to fix; to set (e.g. table); to lay (foundation)

お店みせのフロアの中ちゅう央おう辺あたりにテーブルが据すえられていた。A table had been set up around the middle of the shop floor.

2. to install; to seat (someone)

彼かれを、この国くにの国こく王おうに据すえなくてはならない。We must install him as the king of this country.

3. to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)

少しょう女じょはペットボトルに視し線せんを据すえたまま答こたえた。The girl answered while keeping her gaze fixed on the plastic bottle.

4. to apply (moxa)

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to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on

to stare at with a fixed gaze; to glare

to strike (someone) down; to knock down; to thrash; to place firmly

誰だれをこの地ち位いにすえるのかが問もん題だいだよな。

The question is who to put in this position.

私わたしは瓶びんを床ゆかにすえ、膝ひざをついた。

I set the bottle on the floor and knelt down.

彼かれを、この国くにの国こく王おうにすえなくてはならない。

We must install him as the king of this country.

お店みせのフロアの中ちゅう央おう辺あたりにテーブルがすえられていた。

A table had been set up around the middle of the shop floor.

少しょう女じょはペットボトルに視し線せんをすえたまま答こたえた。

The girl answered while keeping her gaze fixed on the plastic bottle.

まず、地じ面めんに転ころがっていた椅い子すを起おこし、元もと通どおりの場ば所しょにすえた。

First, I picked up the chair that had been lying on the ground and set it back in its original place.

彼かれをしかるべき地ち位いにすえれば、きっと活かつ躍やくしてくれると思おもいますが。

I think that if you put him in a suitable position, he would surely do great work.

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