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待合室

Waiting Room

Meaning

Waiting Room

Word Type

noun

Explanation

A room where you join other people to wait. This is a waiting room.

Reading

まちあいしつ

Explanation

Remember how you learned 待合 already? Well throw the on'yomi for 室 on the end of that and you have your reading!

Context

Patterns of Use

Common Word Combinations

  • 待合室で待つ

    to wait in the waiting room

    待合室で待たす

    to have someone wait in the waiting room

    待合室で読む

    to read in the waiting room

  • 待合室にいる

    to be in the waiting room

    待合室にある

    to be in the waiting room

    待合室に入る

    to enter the waiting room

  • 病院の待合室

    hospital waiting room

    クリニックの待合室

    clinic waiting room

    外来の待合室

    outpatient waiting room, visitor waiting room

Context Sentences

今、歯医者の待合室にいます。

I'm in the dentist's waiting room now.

病院の待合室にはたくさんの人がいました。

There were many people in the hospital waiting room.

待合室がないので、夜行バスを外で待つのが寒すぎた。待合室作ってくれ！

It was too cold waiting outside for the night bus because there was no waiting room. Please build a waiting room!

Kanji Composition