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うし

cow

ushi

JLPT
N3
Frequency
#2,543

Meanings

  1. 1
    cattle (Bos taurus); cow; bulln
  2. 2
    beefn
  3. 3
    Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)n

JMdict 1231490

In a sentence

うしcowくさgrassたべる食べるeat

Cows eat grass

How it works

This is a clean topic-object-verb line. (topic) sets up うし (cow) as the topic, (object) marks くさ (grass) as what gets eaten, and 食べるたべる (eat) lands last. Japanese always puts the verb at the very end, after everything it acts on.

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