VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

買う

かう
hepburn kau

to buy

Part of speech · godan-verb

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Examples

  1. 本屋で本を買いました。
    I bought a book at the bookstore.
  2. 何を買いたいですか。
    What do you want to buy?

Collocations

本を買う~で買う (place)買い物 (kaimono)買いたい買ってきます

Mnemonic

買う kau — godan verb. ます-form 買います, te-form 買って, negative 買わない (the -aw stem appears in negative/conditional). Nominalized as 買い物 kaimono (shopping). Pairs with 売る uru (to sell).

Quick check

  1. How do you say "I did not buy" politely in Japanese?

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