Illustration: At a Japanese apartment stove, a distracted home cook presses a thick pancake firmly against a hot frying pan with a spatula while turning toward a child nearby. Smoke curls from the pancake's edge, and its lifted corner reveals a deeply blackened underside.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

焦こがす

kogasu

to burn, to scorch

Example sentences

  1. トーストを焦こがしてしまった。

    I’ve burnt the toast.

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  2. ケーキを焦こがしちゃった。

    I burned the cake.

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  3. どうしよう、お鍋なべを焦こがしちゃった！

    What should I do? I burned the pot!

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Kanji in 焦

  • 焦char; hurryOnショウKunこげる・こがす・こがれる

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