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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

転てん嫁か

tenka

to shift blame or burdens onto others

Example sentences

  1. ジョンは責任せきにんを他人たにんに転嫁てんかする。

    John casts the blame on others.

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  2. 責任せきにんを転嫁てんかする。

    Pass the buck.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 具体的ぐたいてきには、農作物のうさくもつの価格変動かかくへんどうリスクを、政府せいふから農民のうみんへ転嫁てんかしたものといえる。

    To be more precise, it can be said that the risk of price fluctuation of agricultural crops was passed on to farmers from the government.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 転嫁

  • 転revolve; turn aroundOnテンKunころがる・ころげる・ころがす
  • 嫁marry into; brideOnカKunよめ・とつぐ・いく

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