占める – Vocabulary details

占しめる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to account for; to make up; to take up

2. to occupy (a place, position, etc.); to hold (a rank, seat, etc.)

3. to occupy (one's mind, heart, etc.); to weigh (on one's mind); to grip (e.g. one's heart)

4. to gain; to secure; to obtain; to win

fortune-telling

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to buy up

to be encouraged by initial success; to get a taste for; to yearn for more

to take a seat; to sit; to occupy a position (e.g. committee president)

彼かれは会かい社しゃで重じゅう要ような地ち位いを占しめている。

He occupies a prominent position in the firm.

本ほんが彼かれの部へ屋やの大だい部ぶ分ぶんを占しめている。

Books occupy most of his room.

時ときには読どく書しょが彼かれの時じ間かんの半はん分ぶんを占しめた。

Sometimes reading took up half his time.

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