Illustration: On a Japanese apartment balcony, an older gardener slowly transfers seedlings from a nursery tray into a long planter. A short stretch already contains evenly spaced plants, while most of the planter remains bare and many seedlings still wait.

ぼつぼつ

botsubotsu

gradually, little by little

Example sentences

新あたらしい町まちにもぼつぼつ慣なれてきた。
I’m gradually getting used to the new town.
Written by AI for Bebop
朝あさから店みせに客きゃくがぼつぼつ来きている。
Customers have been coming into the shop little by little since morning.
Written by AI for Bebop
引ひっ越こしの準備じゅんびをぼつぼつ始はじめた。
I’ve started preparing for the move little by little.
Written by AI for Bebop

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences

Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store

For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store