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  • 唱える
  • 遠慮する

40 兼ねる To Combine

Alternative Meanings

To Double As

Part of Speech

Ichidan verb

Reading

かねる

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

Context Sentence

できれば台所と居間を兼ねるような部屋がある方がいいなぁ。

I prefer to have a kitchen-cum-living room if possible.

Meaning Explanation

Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means concurrently, but since you can't "to concurrently", we're going to have to come up with another word to use: "to combine" or "to double as." Since this kanji has to do with something having a dual purpose, we can say that something can combine as being another thing, or double as being another thing, which is where these words come from.

Reading Explanation

For example, a car (か) can double as a place to sleep at night when not enough people become members of WaniKani.

Utilized Kanji

  • 兼
    • けん
    • Concurrently
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