使う
Kana: つかう
to spend (money)
Example sentence
本に千円使いました。
ほんにせんえんつかいました。
I spent a thousand yen on books.
What 使う means
使う (つかう) is a Japanese word meaning “to spend (money)”. It appears in the Level 1 collection, under Actions & Verbs (and also in Level 4).