N3 · 40 words
Working life
Finding a job, changing it, leaving it, and the kinds of work in between.
Working life in Japan has words for its own institutions: the informal job offer students receive months before they graduate (内定), a fixed retirement age (定年), and a sharp line between permanent staff and agency or part-time workers. Most of these nouns become verbs with する — 就職する, 転職する — and note that you 勤める at a company with に but 働く there with で.
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勤めるto work for; to be employed atVerbN4
姉は病院に勤めています。My elder sister works at a hospital.
Takes に; 働く takes で.
雇うto employ; to hireVerbN3
この店は学生を三人雇っています。This shop employs three students.
This list belongs to Work and careers — nine lists and 356 words that can also be practised as a whole.
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