Illustration: At a small timber house construction site, a carpenter kneels beside the exposed base of the building. Thick horizontal sill timbers are anchored to a low concrete foundation, and the first upright posts fit securely into them.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

土ど台だい

dodai

foundation, basis

Example sentences

  1. この家いえは土台どだいがしっかりしている。

    This house has a solid foundation.

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  2. 洪水こうずいで家いえの土台どだいが削けずり取とられた。

    The house was undermined by the flood.

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  3. 土台どだいはコンクリートで固かためられている。

    The foundation is bedded in concrete.

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Kanji in 土台

  • 土soil; earthOnド・トKunつち
  • 台pedestal; a standOnダイ・タイKunうてな・われ・つかさ

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