Illustration: On a small Japanese vegetable plot, a farmer guides a compact walk-behind cultivator through a strip of compacted earth. Directly behind the machine, the ground has become loose, dark furrows; ahead, it remains firm and weed-speckled.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

耕こう作さく

kousaku

to cultivate land

Example sentences

  1. ３００年間ねんかん、彼かれらは周囲しゅういの土地とちを耕作こうさくしてきた。

    For three hundred years they have farmed the surrounding land.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. しかし、この当時とうじすでに12%が耕作こうさく放棄ほうきされていた。

    However, 12% of the Tanada had already been abandoned at that time.

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

  3. 農業のうぎょうは穀物こくもつを育そだてるための土壌どじょうの耕作こうさくと定義ていぎされる。

    Agriculture is defined as cultivating soil to grow grain.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 耕作

  • 耕till; plowOnコウKunたがやす
  • 作make; productionOnサク・サKunつくる・つくり

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