Illustration: In the courtyard behind a small furniture workshop, two workers dismantle an old wooden cabinet. Its doors already lie flat on padded supports, its drawers have been removed, and one worker carefully unscrews the final side panel while the other holds it upright.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

解かい体たい

kaitai

to dismantle, to demolish

Example sentences

  1. あの古ふるい建物たてものが解体かいたいされるのを見みてたんだ。

    I watched them destroy the old building.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. これは解体かいたいして持もち運はこびできるように造つくられていた。

    It could be disassembled and moved to different places.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 解体かいたいするの手伝てつだって。

    Help me dismantle it.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 解体

  • 解untie; understandOnカイ・ゲKunとく・とかす・とける
  • 体body; substanceOnタイ・テイKunからだ・かたち

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