Illustration: A married adult eats dinner alone at a compact apartment table while video-calling their spouse. The screen clearly shows the spouse eating in a different, fully furnished home with a different kitchen and their shared wedding photograph behind them.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

別べっ居きょ

bekkyo

to live apart

Example sentences

彼かれは妻つまと別居べっきょしている。
He is living apart from his wife.
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彼かれは両親りょうしんと別居べっきょしている。
He lives apart from his parents.
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この別居べっきょ状態じょうたいが十数年続じゅうすうねんつづいた。
Thereafter, they lived separately for more than ten years.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 別居

別separate; branch offOnベツKunわかれる・わける
居reside; existOnキョ・コKunいる・おる

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