VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

牛乳

ぎゅうにゅう

hepburn gyuunyuu

cow milk

Part of speech · noun

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Examples

毎朝、牛乳を飲みます。
I drink milk every morning.
冷蔵庫に牛乳がありますか。
Is there milk in the fridge?

Collocations

牛乳 (gyuunyuu, milk)低脂肪牛乳 (teishibou gyuunyuu, low-fat milk)豆乳 (tounyuu, soy milk)ミルク (miruku, milk — loanword)生クリーム (nama kuriimu, fresh cream)

Mnemonic

牛乳 gyuunyuu — kanji "cow (牛) + milk (乳)", same characters as Korean uyu. Pronunciation trap: ぎゅう (gyuu) + にゅう (nyuu) — two consecutive yō-on (palatalized) morae, tricky for N5 learners. Parallel terms 豆乳 (tounyuu, soy milk), 母乳 (bonyuu, breast milk). The loanword ミルク (miruku) shows up in café menus (カフェミルク, ミルクティー) and powdered formula, while groceries and recipes use 牛乳 — a register split.

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