Illustration: In the entrance of a Japanese apartment, a resident replaces the broken wheel on a child’s push scooter. The damaged wheel lies beside the scooter with a visible split in its rubber, while the resident slides a matching intact wheel onto the now-exposed axle.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

置おき換かえる

okikaeru

to replace, to substitute

Example sentences

  1. 現在げんざいのバージョンは、アップグレード版ばんで置おき換かえます。

    We will replace the current version with the upgrade.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 戦争せんそうは私わたしたちの幸しあわせを奪うばい取とって、代かわりに恐怖きょうふで置おきかえたのよ。

    War has taken away our happiness and replaced it with horror.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 封建制度ほうけんせいどは意味いみをなさなくなり、郡県制ぐんけんせいに置おき換かえられた。

    The Hoken system became meaningless and was replaced by the Gun Ken system.

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

Kanji in 置換

  • 置placement; putOnチKunおく
  • 換interchange; periodOnカンKunかえる・かわる

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