Illustration: Outside an apartment building, two friends pause with takeaway drinks and invite a neighbour to join them on a low wall. The neighbour smiles apologetically while wheeling a bicycle with a visibly flat rear tyre toward a nearby repair shop.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

用よう事じ

youji

errand, something to do

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは街まちに用事ようじがある。

    I have an errand to do in town.

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  2. 彼かれに用事ようじがあるのです。

    I have business with him.

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  3. 悪わるいけどほかに用事ようじがあるの。

    I’m sorry, I have another engagement.

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Kanji in 用事

  • 用utilize; businessOnヨウKunもちいる
  • 事matter; thingOnジ・ズKunこと・つかう・つかえる

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