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Learn Hardcore Japanese: umebosi - pickled plum

Hardcore Japanese
/Lesson 54
/umeboshi

umeboshi

Word

梅干うめぼしumeboshi

Meaning

pickled plum

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore Japanese

Lesson

Usages of umeboshi

梅干うめぼし　の　おにぎり　を　二ふたつ　作つくって、　いとこ　に　持もって　いきます。umeboshi no onigiri o futatsu tsukutte, itoko ni motte ikimasu.

I make two rice balls with pickled plum and take them to my cousin.

Nihon-shiki romanizationwatasi ha tyuugoku kara kimasita

Hepburn romanizationwatashi wa chuugoku kara kimashita

私わたし　の　いとこ　は、　納豆なっとう　は　食たべられる　けれど、　梅干うめぼし　は　苦手にがて　だ　と　言いいます。watashi no itoko wa, nattou wa taberareru keredo, umeboshi wa nigate da to iimasu.

My cousin says she can eat natto, but she does not like pickled plums.

納豆なっとう　と　梅干うめぼし　は　好このみ　が　分わかれます　が、　私わたし　は　どちら　も　好すき　です。nattou to umeboshi wa konomi ga wakaremasu ga, watashi wa dochira mo suki desu.

People’s tastes differ on natto and pickled plums, but I like both.

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