Illustration: In a family kitchen, a father catches his child taking the decorative strawberries from a cake prepared for visiting relatives. Several bare circles mark the missing fruit, and the child still holds one strawberry halfway to his mouth.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

咎とがめる

togameru

to blame, to reproach

Example sentences

  1. そのガイドを咎とがめるな。

    Don’t blame the guide.

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  2. 先生せんせいは彼女かのじょが間違まちがったことを咎とがめた。

    The teacher blamed her for the mistake.

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  3. 私わたしは彼かれの過あやまちをとがめた。

    I blamed him for his fault.

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Kanji in 咎

  • 咎blame; censureOnキュウ・コウKunとがめる・とが

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