母（はは）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: mother (my)
Example sentences
- 母の作る料理はとてもおいしい。 — My mother's cooking is delicious.
- 久しぶりに母に電話をかけた。 — I called my mother for the first time in a while.
Idioms & proverbs containing “母”
- 必要は発明の母 (ひつようははつめいのはは) — necessity is the mother of invention
- 孟母断機の教え (もうぼだんきのおしえ) — (the lesson that) one should not leave things unfinished
- 失敗は成功の母 (しっぱいはせいこうのはは) — failure is the mother of success
- 女は弱しされど母は強し (おんなはよわしされどはははつよし) — though the woman is weak, the mother is strong
- この母にしてこの子あり (このははにしてこのこあり) — the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; like mother, like daughter; like mother, like son
- 父母の恩は山よりも高く海よりも深し (ふぼのおんはやまよりもたかくうみよりもふかし) — our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea
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