How to say "farm" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 牧場ぼくじょうnounFor farms that raise livestock — cattle, horses, sheep — rather than grow crops: a stock farm or ranch, and in Australia a cattle station. Dairy farms take this word too.
- nounThe English loanword. It appears most often in the names of farms and in visitor-oriented farming businesses, where the English flavor is part of the appeal; for an ordinary working farm say 農場.
- 農場のうじょうnounThe general word for a farm as a place of agricultural production, where crops are grown or livestock raised. When you simply mean 'a farm', this is the default choice.
- 農園のうえんnounFarm as plantation: an estate growing a cash crop such as coffee or tea. It also appears in the names of pick-your-own and other small visitor-oriented farms.
- 野良のらnounGlossed as 'farm', but its real sense is 'field': open farmland, the outdoors where farm work is done. For 'farm' as a place or business this is seldom the word you want.
Choose 農場 for a farm in the general agricultural sense, 牧場 for livestock (ranch), 農園 for plantations and pick-your-own farms, 「ファーム」 for the English-flavored loanword, and skip 野良, which really means 'field'.
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