Illustration: At a Japanese apartment kitchen counter, a parent pulls a thin sheet of aluminum foil from an unmarked roll to cover a small cooking pot. The sheet bends easily around the rim, keeping sharp creases where their fingertips press it.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

アルミ

arumi

aluminum

Short for アルミニウム. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. ずらりと並ならんだアルミのポットやなべ。

    A battery of aluminum pots and pans.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. アルミは金属きんぞくです。

    Aluminium is a metal.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. しかしこれは終戦直後しゅうせんちょくごの技術ぎじゅつが劣おとっていたこと、アルミの純度じゅんどが低ひくかったためと考かんがえられている。

    However, this is thought to have occurred because the technology available after the end of the war was inferior and the purity of the aluminum was low.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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