畳む – Vocabulary details

畳たたむ

Meanings

Verb (5-dan, む, transitive)

Usually written in kana

1. to fold (clothes, umbrella)

じゃあここに畳たたんでおきます。Then I'll fold it and leave it here.

2. to close (a shop, business)

お店みせは彼かれが自じ分ぶんの代だいで畳たたむって。He says he'll close the shop within his own generation.

3. to vacate

Alt. forms

Kanji used

畳

tatami mat

Pitch accent

た

たむ

Conjugations...Used in: 1789

Used in vocabulary (6 in total)

折おり畳たたむ

to fold up; to fold into layers; to collapse (content on a webpage, etc.)

店みせを畳たたむ

to close down a business; to shut a business

家いえを畳たたむ

to shut up one's house

3 more...

Examples (10 in total)

じゃあここに畳たたんでおきます。

Then I'll fold it and leave it here.

服ふくを畳たたむ時じ間かんがなかったの！

I didn't have time to fold my clothes!

彼かの女じょはハンカチをきちんと畳たたんだ。

She folded her handkerchief neatly.

ケンは毛もう布ふを二ふたつに畳たたんだ。

Ken folded the blanket in half.

お店みせは彼かれが自じ分ぶんの代だいで畳たたむって。

He says he'll close the shop within his own generation.

つまり、彼かれはみずから商しょう売ばいを畳たたんだのだ。

In other words, he closed down his business himself.

これがダメならおとなしく会かい社しゃを畳たたもう。

If this doesn't work, I'll quietly close down the company.

僕ぼくは畳たたむのをやめて、服ふくをそのままの状じょう態たいに戻もどす。

I stop folding and return the clothes to their original state.

洗せん濯たくをすることは構かまわないのだが、服ふくを畳たたむことが嫌きらいだ。

I don't have a problem doing the laundry, but I hate folding the clothes.

隣となりのサラリーマンが新しん聞ぶんを畳たたみながら、横よこ目めでこちらを見みた。