Illustration: At home after school, a teenage girl kneels to help her little brother put on his backpack. The boy, around six, proudly tries to help her in return by lifting her much larger school bag, but it barely leaves the floor. Their similar eyebrows and matching crooked smiles reinforce the resemblance.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

弟おとうと

otouto

younger brother

Example sentences

  1. 弟おとうとのです。

    It’s my brother’s.

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  2. 弟おとうとの名前なまえは？

    What’s your younger brother’s name?

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  3. トムは私わたしの弟おとうとです。

    Tom is my younger brother.

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Kanji in 弟

  • 弟younger brother; faithful service to eldersOnテイ・ダイ・デKunおとうと

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