Illustration: Outside a neighborhood produce shop, a manga artist pauses with a shopping bag over one arm. A shopkeeper has lifted an empty vegetable crate and discovered a cat asleep inside the next crate, hugging an enormous daikon.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ネタ

neta

material, ideas for a story

Example sentences

  1. ネタ切ぎれになりそうだよ。

    I’m running out of ideas.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また時代小説家じだいしょうせつかのネタ本ほんとしても知しられている。

    It is also known as subject materials for the historical novel writers.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 元もとネタ知しらない人ひとの方ほうが多おおい。

    More people don’t know the original reference than do.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

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