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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

黙もく認にん

mokunin

to tacitly allow, to overlook

Example sentences

  1. どうして君きみはそのような行おこないが黙認もくにんできるのだろうか。

    How can you tolerate such a deed?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また、一部いちぶの地域ちいきでは制止せいしすべき警官けいかんが暴動ぼうどうを黙認もくにんした。

    Also, in some regions, police officers who should have stopped riots tolerated the riots.

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

  3. 藩はんの側がわも脱藩だっぱんを黙認もくにんすることが多おおかった。

    In many cases, the domains overlooked those who left.

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

Kanji in 黙認

  • 黙silence; become silentOnモク・ボクKunだまる・もだす
  • 認recognize; acknowledgeOnニンKunみとめる・したためる

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