据える
すえる
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Transitive to place (in position); to fix; to set (e.g. table); to lay (foundation)
- to install; to seat (someone) See also: 上座に据える (かみざにすえる).
- to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
- to apply (moxa)
Kanji
- 据 install. Read as すえる.
Example sentences
- バス料金は２年間据えおかれてきた。
Bus rates have stayed the same for two years. - 彼を議長に据えることに誰も異議を唱えなかった。
Nobody argued against choosing him as chairman. - 少しは腰を据えてやれ。
Settle down for a while and concentrate. - 彼は腰を据えて仕事に取り掛かった。
He settled down to his work. - 彼女の横柄な態度は腹に据えかねた。
I couldn't put up with her arrogant behavior.
Common phrases
- 中心に据える
- 主役に据える
- 腰を据える (こしをすえる) to settle down (and deal with something)
- 柱に据える
- トップに据える
- 灸を据える (きゅうをすえる) to rake over the coals
- 後釜に据える (あとがまにすえる) to install (a person) in (someone's) place
- 腹に据えかねる (はらにすえかねる) cannot suppress one's anger
Related forms
- 据わる (すわる) to hold still (intransitive partner)
Words containing 据える
- 据え置き (すえおき) deferment (e.g. of savings)
- 見据える (みすえる) to stare fixedly at
- 据え置く (すえおく) to leave as it is
And 24 more.