Saturday 24 September 2016

word choice - Difference between 贖う【あがなう】 and 償う【つぐなう】


I learned two words meaning "to compensate" "to make up for" and "to atone for" recently: 贖う and 償う. What is the difference between them? I feel like since they both end in なう they might be interchangeable but I don't know.




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