Illustration: Beside a low table in a Japanese living room, an adult carefully lowers a filled teacup onto a round coaster. The cup's base has just met the coaster, and the person's fingers are opening away from its handle. Their other hand holds the now-empty tray at waist height.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

置おく

oku

to put, to place

Example sentences

  1. 通路つうろに物ものを置おくな。

    Don’t put your things in the passage.

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  2. それをテーブルの上うえに置おきなさい。

    Lay it on the table.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これは、どこに置おくつもり？

    Where are you going to put this?

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Kanji in 置

  • 置placement; putOnチKunおく

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