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田植え

たうえ

rice planting, transplanting rice seedlings

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Examples

  1. 六月は田植えの季節です。

    ろくがつはたうえのきせつです。

    June is the rice-planting season.

  2. 子どものころ、祖父の田植えを手伝った。

    こどものころ、そふのたうえをてつだった。

    When I was a child I helped my grandfather with the rice planting.

  3. 今では機械を使うので、田植えは一日で終わってしまう。

    いまではきかいをつかうので、たうえはいちにちでおわってしまう。

    Machines are used now, so the rice planting is finished in a single day.

Common patterns

田植えをする
to plant rice
田植えの季節
the rice-planting season
田植えを手伝う
to help with the rice planting

Memory tip

田 'paddy' + 植え 'planting'. Its natural pair is 稲刈り, the autumn harvest; together they are the two fixed points of the farming year and appear constantly in seasonal writing.

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