つづめる

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Japanese

Alternative spelling
約める

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Verb

つづめる (tsuzumeruつづめる (tudumeru)?godan (stem つづめり (tsuzumeri), past つづめった (tsuzumetta))

  1. to condense
    • (Can we date this quote?), 神田喜一郎, “漢字の新造”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      ()(しよ)(かん)(さん)()つづめて(いち)()もの
      toshokan no sanji o tsuzumete ichiji ni shita mono
      a condensation of the three characters of 圖書館 (toshokan, library) into one character

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN