Illustration: At a Japanese bank counter, a customer slides a single banknote toward a clerk while the clerk returns several orderly stacks of coins in a shallow tray. The money exchange is the only transaction on the counter: the customer’s open hand reaches for the coins as the other hand releases the note.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

換かえる

kaeru

to exchange

Used especially when exchanging money. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは円えんをドルと換かえた。

    He exchanged yen for dollars.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 銀行ぎんこうに行いけばその５０ドルの小切手こぎってを現金げんきんに換かえてくれる。

    The bank will cash your fifty dollar check.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 手持てもちの円えんをドルに替かえた。

    I converted my yen into dollars.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 換

  • 換interchange; periodOnカンKunかえる・かわる

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