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為 ため N4

  1. advantage; benefit; good; welfare
  2. aim; objective; purpose; sake
  3. consequence; effect; result
  4. affecting; concerning; regarding

為 す

  1. to do

為 い

  1. second string of a koto (counting from the player's near side)

為さる なさる N4

  1. to do

為す なす N2

  1. to bring about; to carry out; to commit; to do

為る する N2

  1. to carry out; to do; to perform
  2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  3. to act as; to serve as; to work as
  4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  5. to judge as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to view as being
  6. to choose; to decide on
  7. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
  8. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  9. to be worth; to cost
  10. to elapse; to pass (of time)
  11. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
  12. to exchange A for B; to make A into B; to transform A to B
  13. to handle A as if it were B; to make use of A for B; to view A as B
  14. to feel A about B
  15. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
  16. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  17. to attempt to; to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to

為替 かわせ N2

  1. draft; money order
  2. exchange (e.g. foreign)

為さい なさい

  1. do ...

為に ために

  1. for; for the sake of; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of; to one's advantage
  2. as a result of; because of

為れる される

  1. to be done (to someone or something)
  2. to be doing; to do
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