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34 傷つける To Hurt Someone

Alternative Meanings

To Injure, To Wound, To Scratch, To Damage

Part of Speech

Transitive verb and Ichidan verb

Reading

きずつける

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

Context Sentence

コンタクトレンズを傷つけちゃったかも。

I might have scratched my contact lens.

Meaning Explanation

You have your wound, and something is attached to it (つける). This is when you attach the hurt onto someone else, so you are going to hurt someone or to injure them.

Reading Explanation

The reading is 傷. If you remember the reading for that you got this too.

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