Illustration: In a quiet family room, an older adult carefully places a small dish holding a mandarin before a memorial portrait inside an open household Buddhist altar. A child stands beside them, supporting the adult's wrist with both hands to help keep the dish level.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

供そなえる

sonaeru

to offer

Used for offerings at graves, altars, or shrines. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

トムはメアリーの墓はかに花はなを供そなえた。
Tom put some flowers on Mary’s grave.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
そのため祭壇さいだんに塩しおを供そなえたり、神道行事しんとうぎょうじで使つかう風習ふうしゅうがある。
Therefore, there is a custom of offering salt at the altar as well as using salt in Shinto rituals.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
お墓はかには供花きょうかが供そなえられていた。
An offering of flowers had been placed at the grave.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 供

供submit; offerOnキョウ・ク・クウKunそなえる・とも

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