決める
きめる
Also written キメる, 極める
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Transitive to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
- to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
- to persist in doing; to go through with
- to always do; to have made a habit of (as 決めている)
- to take for granted; to assume
- to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
- to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
- to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.)
- to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs
Kanji
- 決 decide. Read as きめる.
Example sentences
- 私たちがそこへ行くかどうかを決めるのは君の責任だ。
It is up to you to decide whether we will go there or not. - 決めました。
I made my decision. - 恐喝のその犠牲者は、ここ何年間というもの口止め料を払ってきた。だが、今では、それは愚かなことだと悟り、もうびた一文払わないことに決めた。
The victim of blackmail has been paying hush money for years, but now he realizes it is foolish, and has decided not to pay a red cent more. - 会合は火曜日に開くことに決められた。
The meeting was arranged for Tuesday. - 我々は投票で決めた。
We decided by vote.
Common phrases
- ゴールを決める (ゴールをきめる) to score a goal
- 優勝を決める
- 出場を決める
- 得点を決める
- 方針を決める
- 進出を決める
- 勝ち越しを決める
- 日本一を決める
- 覚悟を決める (かくごをきめる) to prepare oneself (for the worst)
- シュートを決める (シュートをきめる) to score a goal (basket, etc.)
- 心に決める
- 残留を決める
- 盗塁を決める
- 同点ゴールを決める
- 心を決める (こころをきめる) to resolve to do
Related forms
- 決まる (きまる) to be decided (intransitive partner)
Words containing 決める
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