Illustration: In a small Japanese apartment, an adult stands securely on a short stepladder beneath an empty ceiling socket, holding a new pear-shaped light bulb by its base. Beside the ladder, a child carefully cradles the old bulb in an open carton as though it were a fragile egg.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

電でん球きゅう

denkyuu

light bulb

Example sentences

  1. 電球でんきゅうが切きれた。

    The light bulb has burned out.

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  2. 電球でんきゅうがきれています。

    The light is out.

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  3. エジソンが電球でんきゅうを発明はつめいした。

    Edison invented the light bulb.

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Kanji in 電球

  • 電electricityOnデン
  • 球ball; sphereOnキュウKunたま

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