Will you take my question about うける?

dwcarless

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In my lesson I was given (in kana) クレジットカドをうけますか

When I looked up the kanji for うける, I found both 受ける and 請ける. Denshi Jisho lists them with identical definitions and has examples using both as "accept" or "take".

I am curious which kanji is best for the sentence above, and if there is a general difference between 受ける and 請ける?

Thanks!

 

Toritoribe

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In what situation were you given that sentence? クレジットカードをうける doesn't make much sense to me.

 

Mike Cash

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Will you take my question about うける?

Sounds like a direct translation of "Do you accept credit cards?" I suspect the lesson wasn't written by a native speaker, or even a foreigner with much experience using Japanese.

 

dwcarless

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I was asked to translate "do you/they accept credit cards?" The answer book gave "クレジットカードをうけますか" as the correct translation. I never saw that before so I looked up うける and found two forms:
Find words - Denshi Jisho
If the answer book is wrong then that might be the source of the confusion.

 

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The most common translation for "to accept" in that meaning would be 使える. (I think the direct translatin doesn't work well.)

クレジットカードは使えますか？

 

dwcarless

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I agree -- 使える is what I have always used, so うける really confused me. Thanks for the confirmation!

 

Elizabeth

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dwcarless said:

I agree -- 使える is what I have always used, so うける really confused me. Thanks for the confirmation!

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From the merchant side, a store that advertises itself taking cards might be クレジットカードはご利用になれます。 or クレジットカードは利用いただけます :? although I doubt very much they would use the common forms of うける。

 

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It's just a variation of 利用する. You can also use お使いになれます on the store side, 利用できますか on the user side.