ふるさと – Vocabulary details

ふるさと

Noun

Usually written in kana

1. home town; birthplace; native place; one's old home

2. ruins; historic remains

when read as "ふるさと"

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used item; secondhand item; old; used; previous

village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown

hometown tax; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government

to come home in triumph; to return to one's hometown in glory

hometown tax; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government

ふるさとはどうだった？

How was your hometown?

ふるさとが恋こいしいな。

I miss my hometown.

アンドロメダ銀ぎん河がはふるさとです。

The Andromeda Galaxy is my home.

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