働はたらく
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, intransitive)
1. to work; to labor; to labour
I was working here.
2. to function; to operate; to be effective; to work (i.e. ... works); to come into play
However, my mind is not working at all.
3. to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate; to do; to act; to practise; to practice
I am sorry for suddenly being so rude.
4. to be conjugated
Kanji used
work
Pitch accent
は
たらく
Top 600
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
to commit a crime; to do evil
to be busy at work; to work diligently
to work hard; to toil; to moil; to keep one's nose to the grindstone; to slug away
Examples (200 in total)
I was working here.
I worked here.
I've been working since I was sixteen.
Are you working today?
I used to work here.
When do you work?
I don't want to work tomorrow.
Are you working tonight?
Did you work in Germany?
I work at an information counter at the airport.
What are you working for?
He works very hard.
Aren't you working together?
Where do you work?
I like working.
Why do you want to work here?
I started working.
Who is it that you're working for?
I need to work.
I'm working here now.
I worked there.
People ought to work.
They made him work.
I have to work hard too!
How come you're still working?
He hardly works.
I've been working since I was thirteen.
Because his father was working there.
You are the type of person I would like to work with.
It is too hot to work.
Hi! Do you work here?
Work as hard as you can.
Dad is a hard worker.
A strange intuition kicked in.
My father works at a research institute.
How long have you been working here?
I want to work on the front line.
He works at a bank.
I work three days a week.
I worked at a printing factory.
You don't have to work today.
There is no need for him to work.
She always works hard.
He works for the good of the country.
He no longer works here.
What's the sense of working so hard?
This is where my father works.
He is ready to work.
However, my mind is not working at all.
Does she work in this city?
We work for our living.
I'll do your share of the work too.
Why are you working for him?
He found it impossible to work any longer.
It's easier to have fun than to work.
She only worked for the money.
The number of working women is increasing.
He works for the sake of money.
I work eight hours every day.
He wants to work in a hospital.
I chanced to be working there.
This is the store where I worked.
I've been working here since high school.
We are working in the interest of peace.
I work under her.
This is where my dad works.
I plan to work the rest of the summer.
His family works in the fields.
Food tastes great after a day's work, you know.
I work for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Some people are working in the fields.
Chris can't work tomorrow.
My mother is still working in the kitchen.
How hard they work!
How long have you all been working together?
I worked on a yearly contract.
I am sorry for suddenly being so rude.
Does he really work this much on a routine basis?
I work in the field of art.
They went on working for hours.
It was hard to work without breakfast.
He worked very hard.
If they don't work, they don't get paid.
I once worked in a restaurant.
Although he is rich he works very hard.
I work different hours every day.
This room is pleasant to work in.
Or was some kind of inevitability at work?
I work for a firm of publishers.
I haven't had enough sleep, so my brain isn't working properly.
The boss made them work day and night.
He is a really good worker.
That is the shop where I used to work.
Is this where your mother works?
We must work as long as we live.
That is the building where my father works.
He was willing to work for others.
He succeeded because he worked hard.
He worked so hard that he succeeded.
You should have worked harder.
My father lives and works in Tokyo.
Are you a student or are you working?
In humans, the eyes act together with the brain.
I've been working here since I graduated from college.
He sleeps during the day and works at night.
He worked at night and slept in the daytime.
Other people are working, and here you are taking it easy.
At my current company, I work as a temp.
I used to work in a noisy room.
I worked as hard as possible.
I've been working there for three months.
Work and play are necessary to health.
The section chief made me work like a slave.
He felt tired of working in the factory.
Do you need to work on Sunday?
I work hard in the garden in the morning.
You must work according to your ability.
I don't usually have to work on Sundays.
No one wants to work outdoors on a cold day.
My older brother works as a building designer.
I don't hate working, so bring on the part-time jobs!
If only you work sincerely, you will be trusted.
I am going to work in Osaka next year.
He remained poor despite being a hard worker.
Being poor, they had to work hard.
We work by day and rest by night.
My older sister works at an applied physics research institute.
You ought to work hard regardless of your income.
My father is so old that he can't work.
Amy worked in the yard last Saturday.
Their boss made them work against their will.
There is no doubt that some kind of mystery is at work.
I work as Mr Eliot's assistant.
We worked hard so as to increase our sales.
My uncle works in this office.
I prefer working to doing nothing.
It is said that he worked very hard in his younger days.
No matter how tired I am, I have to work.
My wife used to stay home, but she works now.
Although he was tired, he would not stop working.
He works like a slave to his company.
The office where my father works is near the station.
She prodded him to work harder.
I work simply because I like to work.
They carried on working from morning till night.
I prefer relaxing to working.
He works harder than I did at his age.
He felt tired because he had worked longer than usual.
She works as hard as her siblings.
He worked hard to obtain his objective.
I started working at a convenience store immediately after graduating from junior high school.
Everything militated against his success.
You say they work at our hospital? What department are they a doctor in?
Frankly speaking, I don't want to work with him.
No, to begin with, they could probably spend their whole life in luxury without working.
My sister works as an assistant to a college professor.
My father has worked as the mainstay of the family.
Hundreds of people work in this factory.
It seems he didn't commit any theft after all.
This is the place where she works as a secretary.
If you are to succeed in life, work harder.
He worked hard in order to get the prize.
I took today off in exchange for working on Sunday.
Many people work in this field now.
We average 8 hour's work a day.
The party is mainly made up of working women.
Many foreign people come to Japan to work.
He must be working late at the office.
They work from spring to autumn and store up food.
You've only been on the job for about 15 minutes.
In this firm, women work on equal terms with men.
Oh, that person? That's the one who's going to work at our shop.
He has three sons, who work in the same office.
You know that, and yet you're still working as that guy's lackey.
It is probably an amount that would allow one to live without working for a lifetime.
Everyone around the area works hard.
You'll be in charge of the women working in this factory.
It is cruel of them to make the boy work so hard.
My dream has come true at last by working hard.
He is always working from morning till night.
He worked as hard as anybody else.
With your mother in the hospital, you'll have to work harder.
The people I work with are all very kind.
What has made you decide to work for our company?
As usual, I was working in the lab as the doctor's assistant.
He worked very hard so he could buy a foreign car.
I hate working, but beer tastes better than usual after work.
But if you can receive benefits in proportion to how much you work, it's not bad.
He has to work hard to support his family.
If the other person is someone you don't care about, such a mentality doesn't even come into play in the first place.
The difference is this: he works harder than you.
Working together, they cleaned the entire house in no time.
When I try to think, the stabbing pain in my head gets worse.
You must work hard if you are to succeed.
The emphasis of his talk was on the need to work hard.
There are some people who enjoy work - in fact, they love to work.
He worked hard in order that his family might live in comfort.
He had been working in the factory for three years when the accident occurred.
I was working last night.
He worked last night without taking a break.