刈り取る

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 刈り取る (かりとる) is a transitive verb meaning to reap or harvest grain, or to cut and gather grass.
• Basic usage: It describes harvesting wheat with machinery or the approaching season for reaping rice.
  • 農家の人たちは実った麦を機械で刈り取りました。 — The farmers harvested the ripe wheat with machinery.
  • 稲を刈り取る時期が近づいています。 — The time to reap the rice is approaching.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Dictionary form and verb stem
  • The dictionary form is 刈り取る, while the stem 刈り取り appears before ました in the polite past form 刈り取りました.