Hanamaruhanamaru

えんぴつ

鉛筆

pencil

enpitsu

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#10,811

Meanings

  1. 1
    (wooden) penciln

JMdict 1178590

In a sentence

えんぴつ鉛筆pencilもってる持ってるhave you got?

Have you got a pencil?

How it works

The object noun 鉛筆えんぴつ (pencil) sits up front with its particle dropped — common in casual speech. The verb 持つもつ (hold, have) takes the te-form plus いる (be), contracted to 持ってるもってる (have got), which describes an ongoing state of having. Said with rising intonation, it's a relaxed question: "Got a pencil?"

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