Illustration: Early daylight enters a Japanese apartment where a parent sits beside a baby’s floor cot, shoulders drooping and eyes heavy with dark circles. Their nearby futon is rumpled, with the quilt pushed aside, and several used burp cloths lie in a laundry basket.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

寝ね不ぶ足そく

nebusoku

short on sleep

Example sentences

  1. マユコは寝不足ねぶそくです。

    Mayuko doesn’t get enough sleep.

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  2. 寝不足ねぶそくで疲つかれてるんだ。

    I’m tired from lack of sleep.

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  3. 最近さいきん、寝不足ねぶそくだ。

    I haven’t been getting enough sleep lately.

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Kanji in 寝不足

  • 寝lie down; sleepOnシンKunねる・ねかす・いぬ
  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 足leg; footOnソクKunあし・たりる・たる

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