Illustration: At a neighborhood taiyaki stall, a customer places coins into the vendor's payment tray while accepting a freshly cooked fish-shaped cake in a plain paper sleeve. The vendor extends the purchase across the counter, and both people's hands make the exchange unmistakable.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

買かう

kau

to buy

Example sentences

  1. これを買かいます。

    I’ll take it.

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  2. すいか買かった？

    Have you bought a watermelon?

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  3. 彼かれは新車しんしゃを買かった。

    He bought a new car.

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Kanji in 買

  • 買buyOnバイKunかう

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