Illustration: In a home kitchen, a cook tips freshly washed Japanese eggplants from a colander onto a chopping board. Their slender, gently curved bodies, glossy dark skins, and firm green calyxes are clearly visible. One has been sliced lengthwise to show its pale flesh and tiny seeds.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ナス

nasu

eggplant, aubergine

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしはナスが好すきです。

    I love eggplant.

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  2. ナス、美味おいしかった。

    The eggplant was great.

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  3. このナス、どうにかしなきゃ。

    I have to do something with this eggplant.

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