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さそう
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, う, transitive)
1. to invite; to ask (someone to do); to call (for); to take (someone) along
2. to tempt; to lure; to entice; to seduce
3. to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy); to provoke
when read as "さそう"
Alt. forms
誘さそう
97%
さそう
1%
いざなう
1%
Pitch accent
さ
そう
Top 31100
Conjugations...Used in: 304
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
to induce sleep; to cause drowsiness
to cause laughter; to extract a smile
to move to tears; to draw tears; to evoke tears
Examples (23 in total)
I invited my friends.
I invited her to the movies.
I'm invited to this party.
I was invited to dinner by her.
If you invite him, he'll probably come.
I asked her out on a date.
I invited my friend to dinner.
Mary asked Tom to go to the opera with her.
Please invite us out to dinner.
I've been invited on a trip abroad, but I don't want to go.
He invited her to go to the concert.
She has never been asked for a date.
I decided. I'm going to ask him out tonight.
We're invited to dinner next Saturday.
She has been invited to sing in a choir in a foreign country.
That's nice. How about inviting John and Mary?
If Tom invited me to his party, I'd go.
Thanks very much for having me to dinner the other night.
Suzy hopes that Tom will ask her out.
Moderate exercise in the evening helps induce sleep.
He and his companion asked me to come along with them.
Are you really going to ask Mary to the prom?
We lured him away from the company by offering him a much larger salary.