Illustration: At a neighborhood sports-day tug-of-war, the rope’s central ribbon has just crossed the ground marker. The referee plants both feet and extends one arm decisively toward the winning team.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

決けっする

kes suru

to decide, to settle

Example sentences

  1. 予あらかじめ一撃いちげきで勝負しょうぶを決けっする約束やくそくだったので命いのちを奪うばわなかった。

    In advance he had promised to put the fight away with one strike, so he didn’t take the opponent’s life.

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

  2. よりおかしな顔かおを作つくった者もの、あるいはより正ただしいふつうの顔かおを作つくった者ものを勝者しょうしゃとするなどして勝敗しょうはいを決けっする場合ばあいもある。

    The winner is decided by choosing the person who has made the strangest face, the most normal face, or the like.

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

  3. 結果けっか、応仁おうにんの乱らんは首都しゅと・京都きょうとを焦土しょうどとしただけで何なんら勝敗しょうはいを決けっすることなく終結しゅうけつしたのである。

    Hence, the Onin War ended without any sort of conclusive victory for either side; the only thing it had accomplished was the near-total destruction of the capital, Kyoto.

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

Kanji in 決

  • 決decide; fixOnケツKunきめる・きまる・さく

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