Illustration: Inside a compact neighborhood bookstore, a customer offers coins at the counter while the bookseller folds a plain paper cover around a newly purchased novel. Tall shelves packed with books line the narrow aisle, and a front table holds orderly stacks of new copies with illustrated covers.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

本ほん屋や

hon'ya

bookstore

Example sentences

  1. 本屋ほんやまで歩あるきましょう。

    Let’s walk to the bookstore.

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  2. 僕ぼくはよくその本屋ほんやに行いく。

    I often go to the bookstore.

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  3. 私わたしの家いえの前まえに本屋ほんやがある。

    There is a bookstore in front of my house.

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Kanji in 本屋

  • 本book; presentOnホンKunもと
  • 屋roof; houseOnオクKunや

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