JapanLingo

取り消すとりけす

torikesu

to cancel

N3

How to remember this word

Tie 取り消す to one concrete moment from your own week in Japan where “cancel” came up — a word anchored to a real scene sticks far better than a definition.

Example sentences

Example 1

yoyaku o torikeshite mo ii desu ka.

May I cancel the reservation?

Example 2

ichido soushin shita meeru wa torikesenai node, ki o tsukemashou.

Once you send an email you cannot take it back, so let us be careful.