Illustration: In an apartment building’s shared utility area, a resident sorts a mixed basket of recyclables into three open containers. One contains only metal cans, another only plastic bottles, and the third neatly bundled paper.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

分ぶん別べつ

bunbetsu

to sort, to separate

Read ふんべつ when it means good judgment. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 以後演歌いごえんかかその他たの音楽おんがくジャンルか分別ぶんべつの難むずかしい曲きょくも登場とうじょうすることとなる。

    Since then, songs which are difficult to divide into enka and other music genres have appeared.

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

  2. それはごみ分別ぶんべつの違反いはんだよ。

    That’s against the rules for sorting garbage.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 朝あさ、ごみの分別ぶんべつを忘わすれてしまった。

    I forgot to sort the trash this morning.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 分別

  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる
  • 別separate; branch offOnベツKunわかれる・わける

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