合わせ

Meanings

1. Noun, Noun, suffix, Prefix

   joint together; opposite; facing

• 眼鏡めがねを目めに合あわせなくてはいけない。

  You have to adjust your glasses to your eyes.

• いつも、いつも員数いんずう合あわせなどと言いわれないで、たまには嘘うそでも良よいから一騎当千いっきとうせんの兵つわものと言いってほしいよ。

  You always ask me to join your team because you need one more guy. Come on - just once I'd like you to say it's because I alone am worth ten of them - even if it is a lie.

• 「着物きものの襟えり合あわせって、右みぎが上うえ？左ひだりが上うえ？」「左ひだりが上うえよ。相手あいてから見みてｙの字じになればいいのよ」「ありがとう」

  "When you join together the sleeves on a kimono, does the right side or the left side go on top?" "The left goes on top. So that when others see it it looks like a y." Thanks."