Illustration: On a narrow Japanese residential street, a waterworks technician crouches beside an opened patch of pavement where a damaged pipe is visibly spraying water. A second worker has brought tools directly to the hole, and a nearby resident points from her gate toward the leak.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

現げん場ば

genba

scene, actual location

Example sentences

  1. 群衆ぐんしゅうが現場げんばに群むらがった。

    A crowd gathered at the scene.

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  2. 私わたしは犯罪はんざいの現場げんばに行いってみた。

    I went to the scene of the crime.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 警察けいさつが事故じこ現場げんばに着ついた。

    The police got to the scene of the accident.

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Kanji in 現場

  • 現present; existingOnゲンKunあらわれる・あらわす・うつつ
  • 場location; placeOnジョウ・チョウKunば

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