tebineri de yunomi wo tukuru.

手びねり means hand-forming or hand-building pottery.

In this sentence, it refers to making something out of clay by shaping it with your hands, rather than using a potter’s wheel or a mold.

So 手びねりで湯飲みを作る means something like:

• make a teacup by hand-forming
• make a yunomi using a hand-building method

Here, で shows the method or means used to do something.

So:

• 手びねりで = by hand-forming / using the hand-building method

This is a very common use of で in Japanese:

• バスで行く = go by bus
• ナイフで切る = cut with a knife
• 手びねりで作る = make by hand-forming

So in this sentence, で is not marking a place. It is marking how the cup is made.

を marks the direct object of the verb.

The verb here is 作る (to make), and the thing being made is 湯飲み.

So:

• 湯飲みを作る = make a yunomi / make a teacup

This is the standard pattern:

• Noun を Verb

Examples:

• パンを食べる = eat bread
• 本を読む = read a book
• 湯飲みを作る = make a teacup

湯飲み usually refers to a Japanese teacup, especially one used for drinking tea.

It is not just any cup in general. It has a more specific cultural meaning than English cup.

Breakdown:

• 湯 = hot water / hot liquid
• 飲み = drinking

As a word, though, 湯飲み simply means teacup or Japanese teacup.

A learner should remember it as a set word, not as something to translate piece by piece every time.

Because Japanese normally places the verb at the end of the sentence.

This is one of the biggest differences from English.

English:

• [I] make a teacup by hand-forming.

Japanese:

• [method] [object] [verb]
• 手びねりで 湯飲みを 作る。

So the sentence order is very natural for Japanese.

A rough structure is:

• 手びねりで = by hand-forming
• 湯飲みを = a teacup
• 作る = make

作る is the dictionary form / plain form of the verb.

This form is commonly used in:

• dictionary entries
• casual speech
• headings
• instructional descriptions
• neutral examples in textbooks

作ります is the polite form.

So both can be correct depending on context:

• 手びねりで湯飲みを作る。 = plain / neutral
• 手びねりで湯飲みを作ります。 = polite

If this sentence appears as a simple example sentence or title, 作る is completely normal.

This is a normal feature of Japanese writing.

Here, 手 is written in kanji, while びねり is written in hiragana. That does not mean it is two separate words.

Japanese often mixes kanji and hiragana in a single word. Sometimes this happens because:

• that spelling is standard or common
• the full kanji version is less familiar
• the hiragana version looks more natural or readable

So 手びねり is one word, read てびねり.

Here, 手びねり is functioning as a noun.

That is why it can be followed by で:

• 手びねりで = by hand-forming

Even though the meaning involves an action or technique, Japanese often uses nouns for methods, tools, or styles, and then attaches particles like で.

So it is not being used as a conjugated verb in this sentence.

Yes. Japanese often leaves out the subject when it is obvious from context or not important.

So this sentence could mean:

• I make a teacup by hand-forming
• You make a teacup by hand-forming
• One makes a teacup by hand-forming
• To make a teacup by hand-forming

The exact subject depends on the situation.

In isolated example sentences, Japanese often omits the subject entirely.

Not exactly.

That English sentence could sound like it simply means use your hands, but 手びねり is more specific than that. It refers to a pottery technique: hand-building / hand-forming.

So better translations would be:

• make a teacup by hand-forming
• make a teacup using the hand-building method
• hand-build a teacup

Using with your hands is not totally wrong, but it misses the specific craft nuance.

No. Normal Japanese is usually written without spaces.

So this sentence would normally appear as:

手びねりで湯飲みを作る。

Spaces are often added in beginner materials to make it easier to see the parts of the sentence.

So the spaced version is helpful for learning, but the natural written form has no spaces.