Illustration: At an outdoor neighborhood café, a seated customer bends to retrieve a dropped napkin. Behind the chair, another person quietly slips a wallet from the customer's open shoulder bag, looking sideways to check whether the owner notices.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

泥どろ棒ぼう

dorobou

thief, burglar

Example sentences

泥棒どろぼうを捕つかまえた。
We caught the thief.
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彼かれは泥棒どろぼうだ。
He is a thief.
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泥棒どろぼうが逃にげた。
The thief ran away.
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Kanji in 泥棒

泥mud; mireOnデイ・ナイ・デKunどろ・なずむ
棒rod; stickOnボウ

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