Illustration: At a home dining table, a host uses cooking tweezers to rotate a single sesame seed on top of an otherwise finished dish. Every place is set, the other dishes are ready, and three guests sit with chopsticks paused in their hands.

こだわる

kodawaru

to fuss over, to be hung up on

It can also have a positive sense of being particular about something. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

私わたしはいつまでも過去かこにこだわらないようにと心こころがけている。
I try not to dwell on the past.
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細こまかいことにこだわるな。
Don’t split hairs.
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その男おとこの子こはあくまでも髪かみの毛けを伸のばすことにこだわった。
The boy persisted in wearing his hair long.
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