Illustration: At a Japanese neighborhood festival, children queue beside a simple wooden game in which a mallet strikes a padded target. The child who has just played steps away and passes the single mallet to the first child in line.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

番ばん

ban

one’s turn

Example sentences

  1. ６時じからずっと待まっているのだが、僕ぼくの番ばんがまだ来こない。

    I’ve been waiting since six o’clock and still my turn hasn’t come.

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  2. 次つぎは君きみの番ばんだ。

    It’s your turn next.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 君きみの番ばんだよ。

    It’s your move.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 番

  • 番turn; number in a seriesOnバンKunつがい

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