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そつぎょう
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. graduation; completion (of a course)
I heard that you won't be able to graduate if things stay like this.
2. moving on (from); outgrowing (something)
I've already moved on from all that chasing.
3. leaving (a group, company, etc.); quitting
I left the company I had worked at for many years and went independent.
Alt. forms
卒そつ業ぎょう
99%
そつぎょう
Pitch accent
そ
つぎょう
Conjugations...Used in: 6
Composed of
low-ranking soldier; graduation; moving on (from); outgrowing (something); low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); death (of a noble, etc.)
work; business; company; study
Used in vocabulary (17 in total)
graduation ceremony; commencement
graduate; alumnus; alumna
after graduation
14 more...
Examples (67 in total)
I graduated in 2013.
I graduated from the school.
You graduated and are working, right?
But I have outgrown being a princess.
I graduated from elementary school.
I graduated from Harvard.
I heard that you won't be able to graduate if things stay like this.
When did you graduate from high school?
I finally graduated from junior high school.
The third-years are graduating soon.
Tom will graduate in October.
When did you graduate from Oxford?
I graduated from Kyoto University.
She graduated from high school last year.
She graduated with honors.
Cheers to everyone's graduation!
I will study abroad when I have finished school.
My daughter graduated from high school last year.
She is leaving the show at the end of this month.
Helen graduated from high school last year.
She is leaving the idol group next month.
I hope to graduate from university next spring.
He graduated from a senior high school with honors.
He graduated from Cambridge with honors.
I've already moved on from all that chasing.
As soon as he graduated, he left town.
I owe it to my parents that I was able to finish college.
After her graduation from college, she went over to the United States.
After I graduate from university, I plan to go on to grad school.
Right after finishing high school, I left my hometown in the country.
My sister expects to graduate from college next year.
I don't have enough credits to graduate.
After graduating, I went to various places.
I left the company I had worked at for many years and went independent.
My little brother seems to have outgrown toys.
If you pass this test, you could graduate next month.
On leaving school, he went to Africa.
She was very shy until she graduated.
She had been very shy till she graduated.
In just two more years, you will graduate too.
At any rate, I'll go to college after graduating from high school.
It doesn't matter very much which college you graduated from.
Since he graduated from high school, he hasn't been doing anything.
I started working at a convenience store immediately after graduating from junior high school.
After he left school, he went to London.
Ever since graduating from university, I've lived in Tokyo.
We may be graduating, but about half the class is moving up together anyway.
Yes, we will all achieve the mission and secure our graduation!
Mary has been looking for a job since she graduated.
Two years have passed since Jim graduated from high school.
I graduated from college in the same year as your father.
I hope to be engaged in the export business after graduating from college.
It is no laughing matter that he couldn't graduate from university this year.
I've decided to live in Australia after I graduate from college.
Masako finished high school in Japan and then graduated from Harvard.
Wow, it's been more than 10 years since I graduated from that school.
There is a system that allows you to graduate half a year early by obtaining credits.
Once you graduate, will you join my company and be my right-hand man?
Tom and Mary plan to get married as soon as they graduate from college.
A few days after his thirteenth birthday, Tony, too, graduated from school.
After I graduated from college, I spent two years traveling around the world.
My sister will have been studying English for ten years when she graduates from her college.
Tom and Mary were friends in high school and started dating a few years after graduating.
When the academic year ends, it means there is a little over half a year left until graduation.
After I graduated from college, I moved back home and lived with my parents for three years.
After graduating from college my brother went to the United States for the purpose of doing further research.
He is proud of having graduated from Tokyo University.