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犬掻きで泳ぐ dog paddling, swim like a dog |
犬掻きで泳ぐ
dog paddling, swim like a dog
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天敵 Natural Enemy |
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理想的 ideal |
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強敵 Formidable Enemy |
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弁解 Excuse |
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一目惚 Love at first sight |
一目惚 Love at first sight |
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未確認飛行物体 Unidentified Flying Object |
未確認飛行物体
Unidentified Flying Object
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Volume 5: The Great いらず Collection |
Today we will look at a few set or idiomatic phrases using いらず don't need. |
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Volume 3: Letters to Kotoba Zamurai's Little Brother |
The Defender of what is right, the corrector of already correct
Japanese, That's right, it's "Letters to Kotoba Zamurai's little brother"
time! |
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Volume 2: Useless Questions for Today |
In This Day and Age, Totally Useless Questions
Here are a few questions that once stirred the heart of every Japanese, but
today are no longer in debate... |
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The Kotoba Zamurai Archives |
"Kotoba zamurai" articles are written to be "a non-systematic approach to
learning unusual, but useful words." While these not-so-serious articles
are written with the upper-beginner to intermediate in mind, even beginners
should be able to get something out of them. If not, I may have wasted 15 minutes
of your life... I will leave it up to you to take the chance. |
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（な）のに |
although, but |
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場合 |
condition, in the case of... |
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ばかり |
1) often, a lot, much, only doing... 2) about, around |
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はず |
must be, should be, supposed to |
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～っぱなし |
1) left as is; unchanged 2) continue an action |
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～ほうがいい |
this is better than that |
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まま |
same, doesn't change |
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～にくい |
difficult to...; hard to |
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～やすい |
easy to... |
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～ませんか |
won't you..., wouldn't you like to... |
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または |
or, choice between A or B |
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～ながら |
while doing A also doing B |
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どうも |
1) truly, really, very much 2) I'm not sure |
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という |
called, such as, that |
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出来る |
1) can, able to, ability to, 2) finished |
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つもり |
planning on, intend to |
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中 |
1) while, 2) throughout |
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ために |
for..., goal, cause, sake of |
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だろう |
perhaps, maybe, I wonder |
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