How to say "lawn" in Japanese

• 芝しばJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounThe plain word for the grass itself, covering the 'turf' and 'sod' senses; think of the material you sit on, lay, or mow.
  母ははは私に芝しばを刈かるように言いった。↗

  Mother told me to mow the lawn.
• 芝生しばふJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounThe word for a lawn as a place: a stretch of mown grass in a park or garden. For English 'lawn' in this sense, this is usually the word you want.
  芝生しばふに露ろが降おりている。↗

  Dew has formed on the lawn.
• 芝草しばくさCommon
  nounPoints to the grass plants themselves — turfgrass — rather than the lawn as a place. For ordinary references to a lawn it is seldom the word you want.

For a lawn as a grassy place choose 芝生; for the grass or turf itself choose 芝; 芝草 names the turfgrass plants and is seldom the word you want for a lawn.

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• 芝しばlawn
• 芝生しばふlawn
• 芝草しばくさlawn
• ローンlawn (grass)
• グリーンgreenland