Illustration: At a family kitchen table, a parent has set out a tall stack of identical coins beside a child's open allowance pouch. After looking at a cracked flowerpot and a football resting nearby, the parent removes several coins from the stack and returns them to the household money box.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

減げん額がく

gengaku

to reduce an amount

Example sentences

  1. 第だい4代台湾総督だいたいわんそうとくの児玉源太郎こだまげんたろうは、民政長官みんせいちょうかんの後藤新平ごとうしんぺいと共ともに『財政ざいせい20年計画ねんけいかく』を策定さくてい、20年以内ねんいないに補助金ほじょきんを減額げんがくし台湾たいわんの財政独立ざいせいどくりつを図はかった。

    The fourth Governor-General of Taiwan, Gentaro KODAMA, made the twenty year financial plan with the Chief of Home Affairs Shinpei GOTO, aiming at decreasing the grant and making Taiwan financially independent within twenty years.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 家賃やちんの減額げんがくを大家おおやに頼たのんだ。

    I asked the landlord to lower the rent.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. 予算よさんの減額げんがくが決きまり、計画けいかくを見直みなおした。

    The budget was cut, so we revised the plan.

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Kanji in 減額

  • 減dwindle; decreaseOnゲンKunへる・へらす
  • 額forehead; tabletOnガクKunひたい

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