放し飼い

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 放し飼い(はなしがい) means keeping animals free to roam rather than continually confining or tethering them.
• Basic usage: It describes allowing chickens to roam in the yard.
  • 庭で鶏を放し飼いにしている。

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A way of keeping animals and the wild
  • 放し飼い describes a way people keep animals. 野生(やせい) focuses on living in a natural state without being raised by people.
• Reading 飼い
  • In this word, 飼い is read がい. Its initial sound differs from that of the independent verb 飼う(かう).