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取り組んで

working on, tackling

→ 取り組む
取り take + 組ん to team up with someone + で Te-form (conjunctive)
verb Rare #44,114
working on, tackling The te-form of 取り組む; it often connects to another verb or appears with いる to mean “be working on.”
JA: 今、この問題に取り組んでいます。
EN: I’m working on this problem now.
Conjugation of 取り組む
Present
取り組む
取り組んで

いま取り組んでいるほかの本が、お返しにならないというわけじゃないけど。

It’s not that the other books I’m working on right now won’t be a return for you, though.

取り組んでいる最中です

I'm in the middle of working on it.

— オデッセイ (2015)

私たちが訪問したときは、小説に半年間も取り組んでいたんですから。

They had been working on the novel for six months when we visited.