Illustration: In the small garden of a Japanese family home, carp streamers swell above fresh leafy branches. A child stands beneath the lowest streamer with both cheeks puffed out, earnestly trying to inflate a tiny handheld version by blowing into its mouth.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

五ご月がつ

gogatsu

May

Example sentences

  1. ５月ごがつは４月しがつのあとにくる。

    May comes after April.

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  2. 私わたしは５月ごがつには１６歳さいになる。

    I will be sixteen in May.

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  3. 私わたしたちは５月ごがつにサッカーの大会たいかいがあります。

    We have a soccer tournament in May.

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Kanji in 五月

  • 五fiveOnゴKunいつ・いつつ
  • 月month; moonOnゲツ・ガツKunつき

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