Illustration: On the floor of a Japanese apartment, a child joins two wooden toy railway wagons by fitting one wagon’s hook through the other’s coupling loop. Their fingers hold the connection at the exact moment it catches.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

連れん結けつ

renketsu

to connect, to couple

Example sentences

  1. その男おとこは二本にほんの電線でんせんを連結れんけつした。

    The man connected two wires.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 全列車ぜんれっしゃを2両りょう連結れんけつ編成へんせいでの運行うんこうとし、単行運転たんこううんてんを廃止はいし。

    All trains began running as two-car trains, and the operation of single-car trains was terminated.

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

  3. 数本すうほんの竹材たけざいをひもで連結れんけつした構造こうぞうのもので、これを左右両脚さゆうりょうきゃくのすね部ぶに巻まき付つけて使用しようする。

    It has a structure where several bamboo sticks are connected with a string, and is used to twist around the shin of both legs.

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

Kanji in 連結

  • 連take along; leadOnレンKunつらなる・つらねる・つれる
  • 結tie; bindOnケツ・ケチKunむすぶ・ゆう・ゆわえる

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store