Illustration: In a Japanese apartment entrance at dusk, a motion-sensor ceiling lamp has just come on above a returning resident. Its light reveals a cat perched inside an empty delivery basket, caught halfway through a grand stretch.

つく

tsuku

to come on (of a light or device)

Example sentences

灯あかりが一晩中いちばんじゅうついている。
The lights have been burning all night.
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テレビがつかないよ。
The TV doesn’t work.
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灯あかりが点ついた。
The light went on.
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