基本

きほん
foundation, basis, standard

Reading

Readingきほん
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji基本

Meanings

  1. foundation
  2. basis
  3. standard
  1. basicsn.adj-の
  2. fundamentals

Synonyms

ベース土台基盤基礎

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

基本的に賞味期限とかない
きほんてきにしょうみきげんとかないBasically, there's no expiration date.
基本的な道具をそろえるだけで十万こえる
きほんてきなどうぐをそろえるだけでじゅうまんこえるBasically, just getting the basic tools costs over a hundred thousand.
外から帰ったら、まず手洗いとうがいをするのが基本でしょう。
そとからかえったら、まずてあらいいとうがいをするのがきほんでしょう。When you get home from outside, first you wash your hands and gargle, that's the basic rule.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 基本

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked