届ける

• 読み: とどける
• ローマ字: todokeru
• 漢字の分解: 届 (kai/todo) — to reach, to deliver, to notify
• 発音: /to.do.ke.ɾɯ/

意味

To deliver; to forward; to send. The act of bringing something to someone or reporting to authorities.

A Group 2 (ichidan) transitive verb, the counterpart of intransitive 届く. Conjugated by dropping る and adding the appropriate ending. Used for physically delivering items, submitting official forms (届け出る), and reporting incidents to police.

例文

1. お弁当を届けてくれますか。
2. 忘れ物を交番に届けました。
3. 毎朝新聞を届けています。

使い方ガイド

場面: delivery, errands, official reporting

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Shares the kanji 届 with 届く. The transitive form adds the active sense of causing something to reach its destination, reflecting the Japanese grammatical pattern of intransitive/transitive verb pairs.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal