Illustration: At a compact Japanese kitchen sink, a home cook lifts a freshly washed bunch of spinach above a colander. Show the tender, pointed oval leaves, long slender stems, and small pinkish root bases still joined together.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ほうれん草そう

hourensou

spinach

Example sentences

  1. ほうれん草そうが嫌きらいです。

    I don’t like spinach.

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  2. ほうれん草そうをのこさずにたべなさい。

    Eat up all your spinach!

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 「ほうれん草そう食たべないの？」「後あとで食たべる」

    "Aren’t you going to eat the spinach?" "I’ll eat it later."

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Kanji in 草

  • 草grass; weedsOnソウKunくさ・くさ-

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