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► 成句
  [(2)ほね]  [骨が折れる]    meaning:  difficult  rank: 3
☆ 子供てるのは本当に骨がれる仕事だ ⇨ Raising children is a job that really breaks your bones, it is difficult

  [(2)ほね]  [骨を折る]    meaning:  effort  rank: 3
☆ 仕事けるよう骨を折ってくれた ⇨ He broke his bones, went out of his ways, to get me a job  (☛ Especially make a lot of effort for someone else)

  [(2)ほね]  [骨の有る]  [coll]    meaning:  character  rank: 4
☆ あいつは骨の有るだ ⇨ He is a man with bones, a strong backbone, character

  [(2)ほね]  [骨を埋める]    meaning:  stay  rank: 4
☆ はこのに骨をめるつもりだ (うずめる) ⇨ I plan to bury my bones here, live here until I die  (☛ Note that it is pronounced うずめる, not うめる)

► 名詞
  [(2)ほね]    meaning:  bone  rank: 1
☆ 事故の骨を折った ⇨ He broke his leg bone in an accident

  [こつ]    meaning:  skill  rank: 2
☆ コツめるまで練習するしかない ⇨ You have to practice until you get the knack
☆ この部品をはめるにはコツ要る ⇨ It takes some knack to fit this part in place  (☛ Often written as コツ)


More examples:
  • 彼等計画の骨格を組み上げた ⇨ They have built the skeleton, fundamentals, of the project
  • 骨董品屋 ⇨ An antique shop
  • を骨折して松葉杖使っている ⇨ He broke his leg and is using crutches
  • 事故を骨折した ⇨ He broke his leg in an accident
  • 事故の骨を折った ⇨ He broke his leg bone in an accident
  • 親父に拳骨をらった ⇨ I got punched in the head by my father
  • は鎖骨を骨折した ⇨ He broke his collarbone
  • 人間の骨格 ⇨ Human skeleton
  • の軟骨 ⇨ Nose cartilages
  • 頭蓋骨の後部に骨折が有る ⇨ There is a fracture at the back of the skull
  • アフリカ西洋人達に骨のまでしゃぶられた ⇨ Africa got its bone marrows sucked off by the westerners. Africa was exploited until nothing left
  • 納骨式 ⇨ A Buddhist ceremony to store bones of a deceased in a grave
  • ラーメンなら豚骨に限る ⇨ When it comes to ramen it has to be of pork stock soup for me
  • は肋骨を折った ⇨ He broke his ribs
  • の骨を折った ⇨ He broke his arm (bone)