Illustration: A school-age child returns through the open entrance of a Japanese home, proudly holding a small shopping bag toward a parent in an apron. Long onions stick out of the bag, and a carton of eggs is visible inside.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

お使つかい

otsukai

errand

Example sentences

  1. あの子こはよくお使つかいをする。

    The boy often runs errands.

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  2. お使つかいに行いって来きてちょうだい。

    Will you go out on an errand?

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  3. その子こどもはお使つかいをして、彼かれのために働はたらいた。

    The child worked for him, going on errands.

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Kanji in 使

  • 使use; send on a missionOnシKunつかう・つかい

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