そつぎょう
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. graduation; completion (of a course)
2. moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.); quitting
Kanji used
graduate
business
Pitch accent
つぎょう
Top 2200
Composed of
low-ranking soldier; graduation; moving on (from); outgrowing (something); low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); death (of a noble, etc.)
work; business; company; study
Used in vocabulary (15 in total)
graduation ceremony; commencement
Examples (43 in total)
I graduated from the school.
I graduated from Harvard.
I haven't yet graduated.
When did you graduate from high school?
I finally graduated from junior high school.
Next spring I want to graduate.
He graduated from Tokyo University.
When did you graduate from Oxford?
I graduated from Kyoto University.
I graduated from university last year.
She graduated with honors.
I will study abroad when I have finished school.
My daughter graduated from high school last year.
Helen graduated from high school last year.
I hope to graduate from university next spring.
He graduated from Cambridge with honors.
What do you want to do after you graduate from college?
As soon as he graduated, he left town.
After her graduation from college, she went over to the United States.
I don't have enough credits to graduate.
If you pass this test, you could graduate next month.
On leaving school, he went to Africa.
She was very shy until she graduated.
She had been very shy till she graduated.
It doesn't matter very much which college you graduated from.
Since he graduated from high school, he hasn't been doing anything.
It was not until I left school that I realized the importance of study.
After he left school, he went to London.
Mary has been looking for a job since she graduated.
Two years have passed since Jim graduated from high school.
I graduated from college in the same year as your father.
I hope to be engaged in the export business after graduating from college.
I've decided to live in Australia after I graduate from college.
Masako finished high school in Japan and then graduated from Harvard.
Tom and Mary plan to get married as soon as they graduate from college.
Tom and Mary were friends in high school and started dating a few years after graduating.
After graduating from college my brother went to the United States for the purpose of doing further research.
I graduated in 2013.
He is proud of having graduated from Tokyo University.
Wow, it's been more than 10 years since I graduated from that school.
After I graduated from college, I spent two years traveling around the world.
A few days after his thirteenth birthday, Tony, too, graduated from school.
My sister will have been studying English for ten years when she graduates from her college.