妻（つま）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: wife (my)
Example sentences
- 妻は料理がとても上手だ。 — My wife is a great cook.
- 昨日、妻と映画を見に行った。 — I went to see a movie with my wife yesterday.
Idioms & proverbs containing “妻”
- 悪妻は百年の不作 (あくさいはひゃくねんのふさく) — a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
- 一盗二婢三妾四妓五妻 (いっとうにひさんしょうしぎごさい) — (the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife
- 一夫多妻 (いっぷたさい) — polygamy; polygyny
- 良妻賢母 (りょうさいけんぼ) — good wife and wise mother
- 肉食妻帯 (にくじきさいたい) — meat and matrimony (Buddhism); Buddhist priest eating meat dishes and being married
- 妻子眷属 (さいしけんぞく) — one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family
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See it used in real works
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