Hanamaruhanamaru

おなか

お腹

stomach / belly

onaka

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#3,820

Meanings

  1. 1
    belly; abdomen; stomachn

JMdict 1002610

In a sentence

おなかお腹stomachすいた空いたempty

I'm hungry

How it works

Literally this says “the stomach emptied.” (subject) points out the subject (お腹おなか (stomach)), and the verb 空くすく (become empty) shifts to plain past 空いたすいた (emptied). Japanese describes hunger as a thing that happened to your stomach, not as “I am hungry.”

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