Hanamaruhanamaru

にく

meat

niku

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#2,111

Meanings

  1. 1
    fleshn
  2. 2
    meatn
  3. 3
    flesh (of a fruit); pulpn

JMdict 1463520

In a sentence

にくmeatさかなfishどっちwhichすき好きlike

Which do you like, meat or fish?

How it works

Here (and) links two nouns into one list — にく (meat) and さかな (fish) — so you can hold them up side by side. Then どっち (which) asks you to pick between them, with (subject) marking it as the thing in question, and 好きすき (like) (really a -adjective, “liked”) finishes the thought. There's no polite です (is) and no question word (question) — the (?) and rising tone alone make it a casual “which do you like?”

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