Illustration: On an apartment worktable, a resident repairs a loose wooden stool. Their fingers hold a screw prominently beside the stool's metal corner bracket, exposing its spiral-threaded shaft, pointed tip and cross-shaped recess in the head.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ネジ

neji

screw

Example sentences

  1. この機械きかいは１時間じかんに千個せんこのねじを製造せいぞうする。

    This machine cranks out a thousand screws an hour.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 僕ぼくがネジを回まわすと水みずが吹ふき出だしてきた。

    When I turned the screw, water burst out.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ライザは大変器用たいへんきようなので、自分じぶんでネジや同おなじような小物こものを作つくることさえできる。

    Lisa is so skillful that she can even make screws and similar small objects for herself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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