Illustration: At a family dining table, a recently married woman helps an older woman shape dumplings while her husband reaches between them for a finished one. The older woman gently taps her son's wrist with the back of a spoon, making both women laugh.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

姑しゅうとめ

shuutome

mother-in-law

Example sentences

  1. 私わたし、姑しゅうとめのこと好すきだよ。

    I like my mother-in-law.

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  2. 私わたしの姑しゅうとめ、ニコリともしないのよ。

    My mother-in-law never smiles.

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  3. 姑しゅうとめとは仲良なかよく暮くらしています。

    I’m getting along with my mother-in-law very well.

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Kanji in 姑

  • 姑mother-in-lawOnコKunしゅうとめ・しゅうと・おば

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