勝手 – JLPT N3 Vocabulary

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勝手

katte

Meaning

    1. one’
    2. s own convenience, selfish
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勝手に水質検査を行ったあげく浄水器を売りつけるなど、悪質な訪問販売が多発しています。There are frequent instances of malicious door-to-door selling, such as pushing water purifiers on people after carrying out water quality tests without permission.
地域参加を呼びかけてもしょせんは美辞麗句、どのみち市役所はやりたいことを勝手にやるに決まっている。The claim of community involvement is just window dressing; City Hall will do what it wants to anyhow.
大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work – collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn’t have been proved more wrong.

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