Illustration: After a casual badminton game in a Japanese community gym, one player sits hunched on a bench, staring miserably at the racket resting across their knees. A missed shuttlecock lies beside their shoe.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

くよくよ

kuyokuyo

to fret, to brood

Example sentences

  1. 小ちいさなことでくよくよするな。

    Don’t trouble about small things.

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  2. 彼かれはいつもつまらぬことでくよくよする。

    He always worries about minor points.

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  3. 過去かこのことをくよくよするな。

    Don’t worry about the past.

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