Illustration: Outside a small Japanese apartment building, an older landlady hands an apartment key to a young tenant standing beside stacked moving boxes. She wears everyday clothes and slippers from her own ground-floor home, whose open doorway reveals a kettle and houseplants.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

大おお家や

ooya

landlord, landlady

Other readings of 大家 have different meanings. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

その大家おおやは以前いぜんは暮くらし向むきがよかったそうだ。
They say the landlord used to be well off.
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私達わたしたちは偶然ぐうぜんアパートの大家おおやさんに出会であいました。
It happened that we met the owner of the flat.
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店子たなこは毎月末まいつきまつに大家おおやに家賃やちんを払はらわなければならない。
The tenant must pay the landlord the rent at the end of each month.
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Kanji in 大家

大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
家house; homeOnカ・ケKunいえ・や・うち

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