Illustration: At a compact kitchen breakfast table, a child lifts a chopstickful of natto from a small ceramic bowl beside steaming rice. Individual fermented soybeans cling together, and many fine sticky strands stretch all the way back to the bowl.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

納なっ豆とう

nattou

natto (fermented soybeans)

Example sentences

  1. 納豆なっとうはねばねばしている。

    Natto is sticky.

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  2. あ、納豆なっとう買かうの忘わすれてた。

    Oh, I forgot to buy natto.

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  3. トムは毎朝まいあさ納豆なっとうを食たべます。

    Tom eats nattō every morning.

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Kanji in 納豆

  • 納store; payOnノウ・ナッ・ナKunおさめる・おさまる
  • 豆beans; peaOnトウ・ズKunまめ・まめ-

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