Illustration: Outside a neighborhood house, a teenager in baseball clothes bows toward the homeowner while offering banknotes with both hands. Between them sits a tray containing a shattered ceramic planter, with the teenager's baseball nestled among the fragments.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

弁べん償しょう

benshou

to pay for damage or loss

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは損害そんがいを弁償べんしょうした。

    I paid for the damage.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 大人おとなになったら弁償べんしょうします。

    I’ll pay you back for it when I grow up.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 割わった窓まどガラスを弁償べんしょうする

    to pay damages for a broken window

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 弁償

  • 弁speech; distinguishOnベン・ヘンKunかんむり・わきまえる・わける
  • 償reparation; make up forOnショウKunつぐなう

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