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怠る

JLPT N2 · Vocabulary

怠る — “to neglect, to be negligent, to be careless about”

怠る (read おこたる) means to neglect, to be negligent, to be careless about. It appears on the JLPT N2 vocabulary list and is a verb.

Reading

おこたる

Meaning

to neglect, to be negligent, to be careless about

怠る in a sentence

準備じゅんびを怠るおこたる。

To neglect the preparations.

The kanji in 怠る

怠laziness

Words that share a kanji with 怠る

怠けるなまける— to be lazy, to neglect, to slack off

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