Illustration: At a Japanese community-center craft table, a child demonstrates a bridge made from folded paper spanning two wooden blocks. The child has placed a heavy toy truck at its center and now lifts both hands completely away, leaving the bridge visibly supporting the load without help.

JLPT N3suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

証しょう明めい

shoumei

to prove, to verify

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしが間違まちがっていない事ことを証明しょうめいしよう。

    I’ll show you that I am right.

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  2. それを証明しょうめいできますか？

    Can you prove it?

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  3. 私わたしはそれが真実しんじつだと証明しょうめいした。

    I proved it to be true.

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Kanji in 証明

  • 証evidence; proofOnショウKunあかし
  • 明bright; lightOnメイ・ミョウ・ミンKunあかり・あかるい・あかるむ

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