Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a resident examines a neglected flowerpot whose soil has split into deep cracks and pulled away from the rim. The plant's leaves hang curled and brittle; one fallen leaf crumbles between the resident's fingertips.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

からから

karakara

parched, very dry

Example sentences

  1. お腹なかはぺこぺこだし、のどはからからだ。

    I’m hungry and thirsty.

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  2. 地面じめんが日ひに焼やけて、からからに乾かわいて固かたくなった。

    The sun baked the ground dry.

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  3. 喉のどがカラカラだよ。

    I’m very thirsty.

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