Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen counter, a grandmother pours clear rice vinegar from a small unlabeled glass bottle into a bowl of thin cucumber slices and wakame. A child beside her has sampled a tiny drop from a tasting spoon and now puckers dramatically, eyes squeezed shut at the sourness.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

お酢す

osu

vinegar

The お makes this a polite form of 酢. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. お酢すが安やすくて買かいだめしたから、酢すの物ものを毎日作まいにちつくろう。

    Vinegar was cheap, so I stocked up and will make vinegared dishes every day.

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  2. この料理りょうりにはお酢すを少すこし入いれます。

    I add a little vinegar to this dish.

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  3. すみません、お酢すはどこにありますか。

    Excuse me, where can I find the vinegar?

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Kanji in 酢

  • 酢vinegar; sourOnサクKunす

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