To Guess
To Sense, To Presume, To Infer
する verb, transitive verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means guess so the verb vocab version is to guess. Alternatively, you can learn this as to sense or to presume.
The reading for this is actually the same as what you learned with the kanji, but the さつ is shortened to さっ. If you had to guess be sure to guess with the shorter つ.
人の気持ちを察する前に、自分の気持ちを大切にするべきです。
You should take care of your own feelings before you take care of other people's feelings.
言わなくても、それだけが理由じゃないことくらい察してもらいたかった。
Even without telling them, I wanted them at least to guess that it wasn’t the only reason.
小学生の時、初めて仲良くなった子の母親に名前を言うと、顔色が変わった。それ以後、その子は急に私とつるまなくなった。当時八才だったが、全て察した。
When I was in elementary school, I told my name to the mother of the first friend I ever made, and her expression changed. After that, the child suddenly stopped hanging out with me. I was eight at the time, but I understood everything.