Illustration: At a neighborhood allotment, a gardener kneels beside a carefully prepared vegetable bed and drops small seeds from pinched fingers into a shallow furrow. A few seeds remain visible at regular intervals ahead of the hand, while an adjoining completed row has been lightly covered with soil.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

蒔まく

maku

to sow seeds

Also written まく. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

春はるが来くると、彼かれらは畑はたけを耕たがやし種たねを蒔まく。
When spring comes, they plow the fields and plant seeds.
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農夫のうふが畑はたけに種たねを蒔まいている。
The farmer is scattering seeds over the field.
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彼女かのじょは庭にわに野菜やさいの種たねをまいた。
She seeded vegetables in her garden.
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Kanji in 蒔

蒔sow (seeds)Onシ・ジKunうえる・まく

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