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婚約 (こんやく): engagement, betrothal — Japanese vocabulary

婚約 is read こんやく and means "engagement, betrothal". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

婚約

Reading
こんやく · konyaku
Translation
engagement, betrothal
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
こんやくが

Example

とうとう私の姉は婚約した。

とうとうわたしのあねはこんやくした。

Finally, my sister got engaged.

Kanji in this word

  • 婚 — marriage
  • 約 — promise, approximately

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