Illustration: In a rented neighborhood vegetable plot, a gardener lifts a shovel full of earth from a fresh hole. The hole's cut sides and the growing mound beside it make the removed soil easy to trace. A young fruit-tree sapling waits upright in its nursery pot, still outside the hole.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

掘ほる

horu

to dig, to excavate

Example sentences

アナグマは深ふかい穴あなを掘ほる。
Badgers dig deep holes.
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その犬いぬは穴あなを掘ほっていた。
The dog was digging a hole.
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彼かれは穴あなを掘ほった。
He dug a hole.
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Kanji in 掘

掘dig; delveOnクツKunほる

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