かさ

傘

umbrella

kasa

Quiz

Episode 5· How to Say "That Hat's Mine Too" in Japanese

JLPT: N5
Frequency: #6,023

Meanings

1
umbrella; parasolnoun
2
something shaped like an umbrella or a conical hat; shade (of a lamp); mushroom capnoun

JMdict 1301940

In a sentence

How it works

A bare-bones casual question: just the object 傘(かさ) (umbrella) and the verb 差す(さす) (hold up), with no particles and no question word — the rising tone alone makes it a question. Dropping を (object) like this is normal in relaxed speech.

Written with

傘umbrella12 strokes