Illustration: At a small blueberry plot beside a Japanese family's vegetable garden, a woman holds a branch steady while her daughter plucks ripe berries into a shallow basket.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

採とる

toru

to pick, to gather

Example sentences

  1. トムが花はなを採とったんだ。

    Tom picked flowers.

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  2. 彼女かのじょは植木鉢うえきばちの花はなを採とって、私わたしにくれました。

    She picked a flower from the pot and gave it to me.

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  3. リンゴ採とって。

    Pick me an apple.

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Kanji in 採

  • 採pick; takeOnサイKunとる

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