To Invite
To Tempt, To Entice
transitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means invite. The verb vocab version is to invite.
誘う refers to casually inviting someone to a place, an event, or an activity. If it's an invitation to something tempting, it can also mean to tempt, or to entice.
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: You saw so (さそ) much in this person that you decided to invite them to dinner.
私、友達を誘うのが苦手なんです。
I find it difficult to ask friends to hang out.
陽気に誘われ、ウォーキングに出かけた。
I was enticed by the pleasant weather and went for a walk.
どうする？サオリもカラオケに誘う？
What should we do? Should we also invite Saori to karaoke?
上司にラーメンを食べに行かないかと誘われたら、行くしかないっしょ。
If my boss asks me to go eat ramen, I have no choice but to go, right?
ついにサヤコをデートに誘ったんだけど、なんとOKの返事をもらえたんだよ。だから、今夜、食事をしに出かけるんだ。
I finally asked Sayako out on a date and she said yes, so we’re going out for dinner tonight.