► 名詞
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: group rank: 1
☆ 彼等は人生の勝ち組だ (かちぐみ) ⇨ They are winners in life
☆ 私達は二つの組に分かれた ⇨ We broke up into two groups (☛ Typically a group of people with similar characteristics, but not with common goals or leadership)
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: pair rank: 1
☆ 五組の夫婦 ⇨ Five pairs of husband and wife
☆ 男女が組になって踊る踊り ⇨ A dance for a pair of man and woman
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: set rank: 1
☆ 組のテーブルと椅子を買った ⇨ I bought a set of table and chairs
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: gang rank: 4
☆ 山口組は日本最大の暴力団だ ⇨ Yamaguchi-clan is the largest gang in Japan
☆ 組の掟 ⇨ The mafia codes
More examples:
- 彼等は新事業の骨組みを組み立てている ⇨ They are building the skeleton, structure, of the new business
- 変速機は複数の歯車の組み合わせを利用している ⇨ Transmissions use combinations of multiple gears
- 会社と組合は時給を五百円上げることで妥結した ⇨ The company and the union agreed at the ¥500 raise per hour
- 組内で皆てんでんばらばらな事をしている ⇨ In the group everybody is doing his own thing with no coordination
- 幽霊組織 ⇨ A ghost organization
- 組合は時給を五百円賃上げすることを要求した ⇨ The union demanded to raise the hourly rate by ¥500
- その組織は全ての活動を終止した ⇨ The organization has ended all its operations
- このテレビ番組は御覧の各社の提供でお送り致します ⇨ This TV program is sponsored by the companies you are seeing now
- この漁船には十人が乗り組んでいる ⇨ 10 people are on board of this commercial fishing ship
- 午後のニュース番組 ⇨ Afternoon news program
- 下部組織 ⇨ A lower-level, subsidiary, organization
- 警官は犯人を組み伏せた ⇨ The policeman nailed the suspect on the ground
- 遺伝子を組み替えて作った野菜 ⇨ Vegetable made by modifying the structure of DNA
- 会社は組合の要求を受け入れざるを得なくなった形だ ⇨ In the end the company had to accept the union’s demands
- 組合は会社の要求を押し返した ⇨ The union pushed back at the company’s demand