ふさく

不作

poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure

N5Common wordNoun
Noun
poor cropbad harvestcrop failure
Noun
low quality (e.g. of literary works)

Example Sentences

去年は不作だった。

The crops failed last year.

毎年毎年不作続きだった。

They had poor crops year after year.

水不足のため不作だった。

We had a poor harvest because of the lack of water.

今年は米作は不作だった。

The rice crop was scanty this year.

女房の(わるい)さは六十年(ねん)の不作。

A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.