Illustration: During a family cleanup, a teenager reclines on the veranda with a handheld game balanced above their face. Their broom lies unused across an obvious pile of leaves directly beside them. In the garden, a sibling is still sweeping, and a parent carries a full leaf bag past the veranda.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

怠なまける

namakeru

to be lazy, to slack off

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは決けっして怠なまけない。

    He is never lazy.

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  2. 怠なまけていて母ははにしかられた。

    I was scolded by my mother for being lazy.

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  3. 彼かれは怠なまける傾向けいこうがある。

    He is inclined to be lazy.

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Kanji in 怠

  • 怠neglect; lazinessOnタイKunおこたる・なまける

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