Illustration: Beside a sunny apartment window, an adult holds a child's trousers across their lap and draws a needle through the torn knee. One side of the rip remains open, while the other has already been brought together with neat stitches.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

繕つくろう

tsukurou

to mend, to repair

Example sentences

  1. 母ははにこのセーターをつくろってもらった。

    I had my mother mend this sweater.

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  2. おまえのジーンズの綻ほころびを彼女かのじょに繕つくろってもらいなさい。

    Ask her if she’ll sew up the hole in your jeans.

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  3. 私わたしの靴下くつしたは繕つくろいが必要ひつようだ。

    My socks are in need of mending.

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Kanji in 繕

  • 繕darning; repairOnゼンKunつくろう

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