How to say "pasture" in Japanese

• 牧草ぼくそうCommon
  nounCovers the grass itself — the plants that livestock graze on — rather than the land. For 'pasture' meaning a field where animals graze, this is seldom the word you want; that sense calls for 牧場.
  ある暑あつい夏なつの午後ごご、ジョンとダンヌは長ながくなった牧草ぼくそうを刈かっていました。↗

  One hot summer afternoon, John and Dan were cutting the long grass.
• 牧場ぼくじょうJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounThe word for pasture as a place: land where cattle and other livestock graze. Use this for the grazing ground itself; it also covers 'meadow' and 'grazing land'.
  牛うしが牧場ぼくじょうで草くさを食たべている。↗

  Cows are eating grass in the meadow.

Use 牧場 when 'pasture' means the land where animals graze, and 牧草 when it means the grass itself that the animals eat; choose according to whether you mean the place or the grass.

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• 牧草ぼくそうpasture
• 牧まきpasture
• 牧草地ぼくそうちpasture
• 放牧場ほうぼくじょうpasture
• 放牧地ほうぼくちgrazing land
• 牧場ぼくじょうpasture