Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a teenager places the final clean bowl into a fully loaded drying rack. The sink is now empty, the tap is off, and the sponge has been returned to its holder.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

済すます

sumasu

to finish, to get over with

Example sentences

  1. 夕食ゆうしょくを済すませたら出でかけるよ。

    I’ll go out after having dinner.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ７時じまでに彼女かのじょは夕食ゆうしょくを済すましてしまっているだろう。

    By 7:00 she will have eaten dinner.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. この仕事しごとをできるだけ早はやくすませましょう。

    Let’s finish this work as soon as possible.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 済

  • 済settle (debt, etc.); relieve (burden)Onサイ・セイKunすむ・すまない・すます

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store