No. 430 in Japanese
問い合わせ
Inquiry; query; request for information.
In a sentence
Webサイトへの閲覧について問い合わせた。
I inquired about accessing the website.
In this sentence, 問い合わせ refers to asking for information regarding website access. It is used as the past tense form 問い合わせた to describe the act of sending an inquiry.
この製品への問い合わせが多く寄せられています。
There have been many inquiries about this product.
Here, 問い合わせ indicates the inquiries received about a product. It's used in the noun form here within the context of being the subject of the sentence.
地域の事務所に直接問い合わせてください。
Please inquire directly to the local office.
In this case, 問い合わせ is used as a verbal noun, paired with the imperative form てください, to give an instruction to make an inquiry to a specific entity.
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