Illustration: A family is halfway through dinner at a small apartment dining table. One adult lifts rice from a bowl with chopsticks, another drinks miso soup, and their child carefully transfers a piece of grilled fish onto a small plate.

JLPT N4suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

食しょく事じ

shokuji

to have a meal

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは食事しょくじ中ちゅうだ。

    He is eating.

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  2. 何時なんじに食事しょくじですか。

    What time is dinner?

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  3. 食事しょくじですよ。

    Dinner’s ready.

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Kanji in 食事

  • 食eat; foodOnショク・ジキKunくう・くらう・たべる
  • 事matter; thingOnジ・ズKunこと・つかう・つかえる

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