Illustration: In a Japanese family home, a child stands between the kitchen doorway and the open doorway of a back room. Behind the child, a parent in an apron holds a steaming serving dish and gestures toward the set dining table.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ことづて

kotozute

message passed through someone

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれが死しんだことは言伝ことづてに知しりました。

    I learned through someone else that he had died.

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  2. 同僚どうりょうにことづてを頼たのんだ。

    I asked a coworker to pass on a message.

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  3. 母ははからのことづてを妹いもうとに伝つたえた。

    I passed on a message from my mother to my sister.

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