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JLPT N1 Grammar

尽くす

N1完全

N1 · 完全 · masu-form verb去ます + 尽くす

do completely; exhaustively

masu-form verb去ます + 尽くす

Shows doing an action completely until nothing remains.

Often used in expressions like say everything, use up, investigate thoroughly, and eat everything; stronger than ordinary completion.

公開前に考えられるリスクを調べ尽くしたつもりだった。

Before release, I thought I had investigated every risk I could think of.

Do not use it for ordinary completion; it emphasizes exhausting everything with nothing left.

Do everything that can be done to the very end.

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