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  2. 自転車

じてんしゃ

自転車

N5

bicycle

jitensha

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JLPT
N5
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#2,122

Meanings

  1. 1
    bicycle; bikenoun

JMdict 1318290

In a sentence

自転車(じてんしゃ)bicycleがあるthere is

I have a bike

How it works

Japanese says literally “a bicycle exists” where English says “I have a bicycle”. が (subject) points out the subject (自転車(じてんしゃ) (bicycle)), and ある (exists) is the verb of existence used for non-living things (いる (exists, living) is the one for people and animals). It stays in the plain form ある (exists) rather than polite あります (exists, polite), so it sounds casual.

Written with

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  • 転revolve11 strokes
  • 車car7 strokes

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