To Celebrate
transitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means celebrate, so the verb vocab version is to celebrate. When you burn this word, you should 祝う!
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
Everyone's here to celebrate, and all you can say is "Eek, wha...!?" (いわ). All your friends and family have come to celebrate your birthday, but you had no idea. Still confused and processing the situation, you keep saying, "Eek... what?" The surprise was a complete success!
こんな年だし、誕生日を祝われるのはちょっとはずかしい。
I am old, so I feel a bit embarrassed when people celebrate my birthday.
オフィスに全ユーザーを呼んで、ワニカニの成功とJLPTの合格を祝う飲み会を開く夢を見ました。
I had a dream in which we invited all of our users to the office and held a party to celebrate the success of WaniKani and their passing of the JLPT.
日曜日におじいちゃんの還暦を祝うために、中華を食べに行きます。
We are going to go eat Chinese cuisine to celebrate grandpa’s 60th birthday on Sunday.