決める
きめる
hepburn kimeru
to decide, to settle (transitive)
Part of speech · ichidan-verb
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Examples
- 旅行の日を決めましょう。Let us decide the day of the trip.
- 自分の将来は自分で決めたいです。I want to decide my own future myself.
Collocations
日を決める心を決める自分で決めるルールを決める決められる
Mnemonic
決める kimeru — kanji 決 (to decide) + the ichidan ending める. It is transitive: to decide something (object marked with を). Its intransitive partner is 決まる (kimaru), where things get decided on their own — the same ~eru / ~aru pattern as K-67's 集める / 集まる.
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