終える

おえる · oeru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan

to finish

🏁 oeru sounds like over: when you 終える a task, it is over

終 means end. It combines 糸 (thread) and 冬 (winter), the season that ends the year, like the last stretch of a thread. Pair it with the sound hook: o-e-ru, it is over, I finish.

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