Nihongo Tree
BRANCH · THEME IN TIME & NATURE

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Example sentences (88)

Plants & living things

shokubutsu · plant
Plants need water and light.
seibutsu · living thing
There are many living things in the sea.
ikimono · creature
Animals are living creatures.
shibafu · lawn
Please keep off the grass.
su · nest
There's a bird's nest up in the tree.
shūkaku · harvest
Autumn is the rice harvest season.
me · sprout, bud
A sprout came out of the seed.
mi · fruit, nut, seed
This tree bears red berries.
mame · beans, peas
I boiled the beans and ate them.
komugi · wheat
Bread is made from wheat.
kokumotsu · grain, cereal
Grain grows well in this region.
sakumotsu · crops, produce
With so little rain, the crops won't grow.

Energy & resources

sekitan · coal
They used to make electricity from coal.
sekiyu · oil, petroleum
Japan imports oil.
shigen · resources
Water is an important resource.
enerugī · energy
Breakfast gives you energy for the day.
sanso · oxygen
There's little oxygen at the top of mountains.
sansei · acidity
Lemons are an acidic food.
awa · bubble, foam
Lots of soap bubbles came out.
kinzoku · metal
Metal conducts electricity.
gin · silver
I got a silver ring.
kitai · gas, vapor
Water turns into a gas with heat.
zairyō · materials, ingredients
We're buying materials to build a house.
kawa · skin, peel, hide
I peeled the apple.

Space & machines

uchū · universe, space
I want to become an astronaut.
eisei · satellite
Weather forecasts use satellite images.
jetto ki · jet plane
A jet plane flew across the sky.
enjin · engine
The car's engine won't start.
suitchi · switch
Press the switch in the room.
jinkō · artificial
This is an artificial lake.
jidō · automatic
The door opens automatically.
kikai · machine, machinery
Show me how to use this machine.
kikai · instrument, apparatus
The doctor was using an instrument at the hospital.
kinō · function, feature
This phone has useful features.
gishi · engineer, technician
My father is an electrical engineer.
kuda · pipe, tube
Water flows through the pipe.

Boards, holes & marks

ita · board, plank
I made a shelf out of wooden boards.
ana · hole
There's a hole in my sock.
ato · trace, mark
Footprints were left in the snow.
ara · flaw, fault
Let's stop always looking for faults in others.
e · handle
The handle of the kitchen knife broke.
obi · sash, band
I tie the obi of my kimono.
ifuku · clothes
It was cold, so I wore layers of clothes.
jiku · axis; shaft
The Earth rotates on its axis.
keijō · shape; form
The shape is slightly different.
tsubu · grain; drop
Raindrops are hitting the window.

Land, climate & skins

kishi · shore, bank
The boat reached the shore.
sabaku · desert
In the desert, the temperature gap between day and night is big.
kikō · climate
The climate here is nice.
kankyō · environment
Protecting the environment is important.
kemuri · smoke
Smoke is rising from the mountain.
kage · shadow, shade
Let's rest in the shade of the tree.
kara · shell, husk
I crack the eggshell.
kawa · leather
These shoes are made of leather.
nikkō · sunlight
It's warm when you sit in the sunlight.
nettai · tropics
I keep tropical fish.
honoo · flame
The candle flame is flickering.
hi · light, lamp
I can see the town lights in the distance.

Earth & atmosphere

chi · earth, ground
The rain fell and the ground hardened.
chikyū · the earth
The earth goes around the sun.
tsuchi · soil, earth
I replaced the soil for the flowers.
taiki · atmosphere
Air pollution has become a problem.
tennen · nature, natural
This is natural water.
uzu · whirlpool, swirl
A whirlpool has formed in the river.
tetsu · iron
Iron sticks to magnets.
tenkō · weather
The flight was delayed because of bad weather.
wakusei · planet
Earth is a planet in the solar system.
chijō · above ground; on earth
It's a thirty-story building.
kansoku · observation
They observe the weather every day.

Matter & magnetism

busshitsu · matter, substance
Water is one kind of substance.
butsuri · physics
The physics exam was hard.
jiki · magnetism
This card is vulnerable to magnetism.
jiki · porcelain
This is a porcelain plate.
sanka · oxidation
Iron rusts when it oxidizes.
yūki · organic
I bought organic vegetables.
purasuchikku · plastic
Let's cut down on plastic waste.
san · acid
Lemons contain acid.
idenshi · gene
We inherit genes from our parents.
atsuryoku · pressure
Water pressure gets stronger the deeper you go.
seibun · ingredient; component
Please tell me this medicine's ingredients.

Power & fuel

hatsuden · power generation
This plant generates power from sunlight.
denryoku · electric power
Electricity use goes up in summer.
nenryō · fuel
We're low on fuel.
damu · dam
There's a big dam deep in the mountains.
isan · heritage; inheritance
Kyoto has many World Heritage sites.
genpatsu · nuclear power plant
They're debating nuclear plant safety.
genshiryoku · nuclear power
Opinions are divided on nuclear power generation.
karyoku · heat; firepower
Please turn the heat down.