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The Japanese word

is pronounced
tomo | とも
means
friend, companion, pal
Examples:
友達は留守だった。
tomodachi wa rusu datta.
The friend was absent.
友達を連れてきなさい。
tomodachi o tsure te ki nasai.
Bring along your friend.
万人の友は誰の友でもない。
man nin no tomo wa dare no tomo de mo nai.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
友達のジョンが私にそう言った。
tomodachi no jon ga watashi ni sō itta.
John, a friend of mine, told me so.
本状の持参人は友人の鈴木君です。
honjō no jisan jin wa yūjin no suzuki kun desu.
The bearer of this letter is my friend Suzuki.
友達を見送るため駅に行ったんだ。
tomodachi o miokuru tame eki ni ittan da.
I went to the station to see my friend off.
友達を呼び出してもらいたいんです。
tomodachi o yobidashi te morai tain desu.
Can I have a friend paged?
やめろよ。あいつは俺たちの友達だろ。
yamero yo. aitsu wa ore tachi no tomodachi daro.
Forget it. He is our mutual friend, after all. | Stop it. He's our friend, isn't he?
友達を見送りに空港まで行ってきたところです。
tomodachi o miokuri ni kūkō made itte ki ta tokoro desu.
I have been to the airport to see my friend off.
麗しの友よ、私にとってあなたは永遠に若いのだ。
uruwashi no tomo yo, watashi nitotte anata wa eien ni wakai no da.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old.
お友達ブロガーさんがブログ閉鎖を決心されて凹み気味です。
o tomodachi burogā san ga burogu heisa o kesshin sa re te hekomi gimi desu.
I'm a bit down because a blogger friend of mine has decided to stop blogging.
友人からもらったコンパクトの鏡の部分が割れてしまいました。
yūjin kara moratta konpakuto no kagami no bubun ga ware te shimai mashi ta.
The mirror on a compact I got from a friend has cracked.
赤いドレスの女は、黒服の男を無視して、ケイタイで友達にかけた。
akai doresu no onna wa, kuro fuku no otoko o mushi shi te, kei tai de tomodachi ni kake ta.
The woman in a red dress ignored the black-clothed man and called a friend on her mobile. | The girl in the red dress ignored the man dressed in black and called a friend on her cellphone.
こちらは私の友達のレイチェルです。私たちは同じ高校に通っていました。
kochira wa watashi no tomodachi no reicheru desu. watashi tachi wa onaji kōkō ni kayotte i mashi ta.
This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.
来週私に会いに来ると書いてある友人からの手紙を、ちょうど受け取ったところだ。
raishū watashi ni ai ni kuru to kai te aru yūjin kara no tegami o, chōdo uketotta tokoro da.
I have just received a letter from a friend saying that she is coming to see me next week.
先日友達のところに立ち寄ったとき、玄関からは友達でなく、その旦那が顔を出した。
senjitsu tomodachi no tokoro ni tachiyotta toki, genkan kara wa tomodachi de naku, sono danna ga kao o dashi ta.
The other day when I stopped by at a friend's house, it wasn't my friend that came out of the front door, but her husband.
ある日、友人から「いい話があるから会わないか」と電話があり、友人の家へ出かけました。
aru hi, yūjin kara ' ī hanashi ga aru kara awa nai ka ' to denwa ga ari, yūjin no ie e dekake mashi ta.
One day I had a phone call from a friend. "There's a nice little earner, won't you come round?" so I went to his house.
先週はパチンコで勝った友人に焼き肉をごちそうになりました。食べ放題でたらふく食べました。
senshū wa pachinko de katta yūjin ni yakiniku o gochisō ni nari mashi ta. tabe hōdai de tarafuku tabe mashi ta.
Last week I was treated to dinner by my friend who'd won at pachinko. It was all-you-can-eat so I ate to my heart's content.
入学して1か月・・・まだ一人も友達がいないってのはやばすぎる。このままじゃ中学の二の舞だ!!
nyūgaku shi te ichi kagetsu . . . mada ichi nin mo tomodachi ga i nai tte no wa yaba sugiru. kono mama ja chūgaku no ninomai da!!
One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!
Examples sourced from tatoeba.org