野や菜さい

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Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

General term for edible plants, especially leafy greens, root vegetables, and other produce used in cooking.

Slang usage; often used in casual or coded speech to refer to marijuana.

〈物もの〉を切きるto cut/chop (vegetables)
野や菜さいを切きってサラダを作つくった。
I chopped the vegetables and made a salad.
〈物もの〉を炒いためるto stir-fry (vegetables)
肉にくと野や菜さいを炒いためた。
I stir-fried the meat and vegetables.
〈物もの〉を育そだてるto grow/raise (vegetables)
庭にわで野や菜さいを育そだてている。
I'm growing vegetables in my garden.
〈物もの〉が不ふ足そくする(vegetables) are lacking/in short supply
最さい近きん、野や菜さいが不ふ足そくしている。
Recently there's been a shortage of vegetables.

青せい果か sense 1
青果 is a formal, commercial term covering both fruits and vegetables together, while 野菜 specifically means vegetables and is used in everyday speech.
トマトN1
野菜 is the general term for vegetables, while トマト names one specific kind (botanically a fruit but treated as a vegetable in cooking).
山さん菜さい
野菜 refers to cultivated vegetables grown on farms, while 山菜 specifically means wild edible plants foraged in mountains and fields.
ベジタブル
野菜 is the everyday native word for vegetables, while ベジタブル is a katakana loanword mostly seen in dish and product names like ベジタブルカレー.
菜な
野菜 is the common everyday word for vegetables, while 菜 is a more literary term usually found inside compounds like 青菜 or 野菜 itself.

果物くだものN5sense 1
果物 refers to fruit, the sweet plant food eaten mainly raw, while 野菜 refers to vegetables, generally savory and often cooked.

盛もり
Counts heaped servings (一盛り).
束たばN3
For bundles tied together — letters, flowers, straw, hair.
株しゅ
Literary counter for standing trees and plants; everyday speech uses 本 or 株 (かぶ).

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A Sino-Japanese compound of 野, “field,” and 菜, “edible greens.” The reading combines the established readings や and さい.