Japanese word
おく
In your course · Chapter 8
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 425 in the course corpus
Meanings
- inner part
- interior
- back (of a drawer, one's throat, etc.)
- depths (e.g. of a forest)
- recesses (e.g. of a cave)
- heart
- end (of a road, garden, etc.)
- living quarters (at the back of a house)
- inner room
- recesses (of one's mind)
- bottom (of one's heart)
- behind (someone's words)
- mysteries (of an art)
- wife (of a person of high status)
- hundred million
- 100,000,000
- 10^8
- to put
- to place
- to leave (behind)
- to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.)
- to set up
- to appoint (someone to a certain position)
- to hire
- to employ
- to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.)
- to bear (in mind, etc.)
- to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
- to take in (boarders, etc.)
- to provide lodging in one's house
- to separate spatially or temporally
- to do something in advance
- to leave something in a certain state
- to keep something in a certain state
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))