butabara o kiru.

I cut the pork belly.

Breakdown of butabara o kiru.

• を: direct object particle
• 切きる: to cut
• 豚ぶたバラ: pork belly

Questions & Answers about butabara o kiru.

How do you read 豚バラ?

It is usually read ぶたバラ or ぶたばら.

• 豚 = ぶた (pig / pork)
• バラ here means belly or side meat as a meat cut

So 豚バラ means pork belly. In cooking contexts, you may also see 豚バラ肉 (ぶたばらにく), which means the same thing more explicitly.

Why is バラ written in katakana instead of kanji or hiragana?

In food vocabulary, especially names of meat cuts, Japanese often uses katakana for part of the word. So バラ is a normal way to write this cut of meat.

This does not mean it is a foreign loanword in the usual sense for the learner; it is just a conventional spelling you will often see on menus, recipes, and supermarket labels.

What does the particle を do here?

を marks the direct object of the verb.

In 豚バラを切る, the thing being cut is 豚バラ, so を shows that 豚バラ is the object of 切る.

A natural breakdown is:

• 豚バラ = pork belly
• を = marks it as the thing acted on
• 切る = to cut

So the structure is basically [object] + を + [verb].