Illustration: At the entrance of a modest apartment, a resident crouches beside several unopened payment envelopes, some dusty and curled beneath newer ones. A visiting property manager holds a collection pouch open while the resident tips a nearly empty coin purse into one palm. Only two coins emerge.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

滞たい納のう

tainou

to fall behind on payments

Example sentences

  1. 数日すうじつならまだしも10日にちも滞納たいのうしている。

    A few days would have been excusable, but you are in arrears for 10 days.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 料金りょうきん滞納たいのうで電話でんわを止とめられた。

    My telephone service was cut off because of unpaid bills.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれは家賃やちんをだいぶ滞納たいのうし、そのためアパートをたちのかされた。

    He was way behind on his rent. As a result, he was evicted from his apartment.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 滞納

  • 滞stagnate; be delayedOnタイ・テイKunとどこおる
  • 納store; payOnノウ・ナッ・ナKunおさめる・おさまる

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