N3 · 40 words
Money in daily life
Pay, rent, bills and savings: where the money comes from and where it goes.
Japanese builds most money words from a handful of kanji, and the last one tells you what kind of money it is: 〜費 is an expense (食費, 交通費), 〜料 a charge or fee, 〜税 a tax. Two habits are worth knowing as well: splitting the bill evenly is so common it has its own word, 割り勘, and もったいない, the sense that wasting something is a shame, has no neat English equivalent.
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支払うto payVerbN3
料金はコンビニでも支払うことができます。You can also pay the charge at a convenience store.
More formal than 払う; the noun is 支払い.
おごるto treat (someone); to pay forVerbN3
今日は私がおごるから、好きなものを頼んで。I'm paying today, so order whatever you like.
稼ぐto earn (money)VerbN3
学費を稼ぐために、夜も働いている。I work in the evenings too, to earn my tuition fees.
This list belongs to Shopping, money and services — seven lists and 280 words that can also be practised as a whole.
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