Kana: で

with; by means of

Example sentence

ペンで書きます。

ぺんでかきます。

I write with a pen.

What で means

(で) is a Japanese word meaning “with; by means of”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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