Illustration: On a small private hillside plot beside a Japanese farmhouse, a family is turning an overgrown patch into new vegetable ground. Dense grasses and tangled roots remain at one end, while freshly cleared earth, removed stones, and the first straight planting beds occupy the other.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

開かい拓たく

kaitaku

to cultivate, to develop land

Example sentences

  1. 新あらたな入植者達にゅうしょくしゃたちがその広大こうだいな荒野あらのを開拓かいたくした。

    The newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. いつの日ひか人間にんげんは砂漠さばくを開拓かいたくして農業のうぎょうに利用りようするだろう。

    Some day man will reclaim the desert for agriculture.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 荒野あらのを開拓かいたくする。

    Cultivate the wilderness.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 開拓

  • 開open; unfoldOnカイKunひらく・ひらき・ひらける
  • 拓clear (the land); openOnタクKunひらく

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