Illustration: At a small apartment’s low dining table, a young adult shows an empty wallet to an older friend, who counts several banknotes from their own cash envelope into the younger person’s waiting hand.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

借しゃっ金きん

shakkin

debt, loan

Example sentences

  1. 君きみは借金しゃっきんを払はらうべきだ。

    You should pay your debts.

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  2. 私わたしには借金しゃっきんがない。

    I am free of debt.

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  3. 彼かれは銀行ぎんこうに借金しゃっきんを返かえした。

    He paid his loan back to the bank.

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Kanji in 借金

  • 借borrow; rentOnシャクKunかりる
  • 金goldOnキン・コン・ゴンKunかね・かな-

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