Japanese word

使う

つかう

In your course · Chapter 29

Part of speech: verb
Level: B1
Frequency: No. 263 in the course corpus

Meanings

use
to use (a tool, method, etc.)
to make use of
to put to use
to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.)
to employ
to handle
to manage
to manipulate
to use (time, money, etc.)
to spend
to consume
to use (language)
to speak

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Conjugation of 使う →

Kanji

使
On reading:
シ
Kun reading:
-つか.い、-づか.い、つか.い、つか.う
Meanings:
use, send on a mission, order, messenger, envoy, ambassador, cause

Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))