Illustration: Beside a school running track, an exhausted runner sits on a bench with slumped shoulders and untied shoes. A teammate crouches to meet their eyes, rests one hand reassuringly on their shoulder and raises the other in a small confident fist.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

励はげます

hagemasu

to encourage, to cheer up

Example sentences

  1. その調子ちょうしで勉強べんきょうを続つづけなさいと先生せんせいが励はげましてくれた。

    My teacher encouraged me in my studies.

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  2. 僕ぼくが彼かれを励はげましに行いこう。

    I will go to encourage him.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれは大学時代だいがくじだいの教授きょうじゅに励はげまされた。

    He was encouraged by a professor from his college days.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 励

  • 励encourage; be diligentOnレイKunはげむ・はげます

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