Illustration: On a residential building site, two carpenters fit a horizontal timber into the rising wooden frame of a small house. One steadies the beam while the other secures its joint from a work platform.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

建たてる

tateru

to build

Example sentences

  1. この寺院じいんは７８０年ねんに建たてられた。

    This temple dates back to 780.

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  2. 誰だれが建たてたんですか？

    Who built it?

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  3. これはずっと昔むかし建たてられた。

    This was built long ago.

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Kanji in 建

  • 建buildOnケン・コンKunたてる・たて・たつ

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