Illustration: A boy of about eleven stands beside the backstop of a neighborhood baseball field in Japan, wearing a loose practice shirt, shorts, and dusty trainers. He studies a baseball resting deep inside a borrowed glove that is almost comically large for his hand.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

少しょう年ねん

shounen

boy

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは親切しんせつな少年しょうねんだ。

    He is a kind boy.

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  2. 少年しょうねんは満腹まんぷくだった。

    The boy was full.

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  3. 私わたしは少年しょうねんを見みた。

    I caught sight of the boy.

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Kanji in 少年

  • 少few; littleOnショウKunすくない・すこし
  • 年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし

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