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{
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"text": "犬は好きだが、猫は嫌いだ。"
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"text": "senjitsu no ken desu ga, […]"
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"(formal) Used to introduce a new topic into the discussion."
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"々",
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"text": "我々が心"
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{
"english": "Fuji View Hill",
"roman": "Fujimigaoka",
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[
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"見",
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[
"丘",
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"text": "富士見ヶ丘"
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{
"english": "Gateway Plains (site of the Battle of Sekigahara)",
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"text": "おやっが",
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"word": "ぢ"
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{
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{
"word": "づ"
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{
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{
"word": "と"
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{
"word": "ど"
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{
"word": "な"
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{
"word": "に"
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{
"word": "ぬ"
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{
"word": "ね"
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{
"word": "の"
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{
"word": "は"
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{
"word": "ば"
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"word": "ぱ"
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{
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{
"word": "び"
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{
"word": "ぴ"
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{
"word": "ふ"
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"word": "ぶ"
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"word": "ぷ"
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{
"word": "へ"
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"word": "べ"
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{
"word": "ほ"
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{
"word": "ぼ"
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{
"word": "ぽ"
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{
"word": "ま"
},
{
"word": "み"
},
{
"word": "む"
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{
"word": "め"
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{
"word": "も"
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{
"word": "や"
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{
"word": "ゃ"
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"word": "𛀆"
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{
"word": "ゆ"
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{
"word": "ゅ"
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{
"word": "𛀁"
},
{
"word": "よ"
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{
"word": "ょ"
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{
"word": "ら"
},
{
"word": "゚"
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{
"word": "り"
},
{
"word": "る"
},
{
"word": "れ"
},
{
"word": "ろ"
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{
"word": "わ"
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{
"word": "ゎ"
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{
"word": "゙"
},
{
"word": "ゐ"
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{
"word": "𛅐"
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{
"word": "𛄟"
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{
"word": "ゑ"
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{
"word": "𛅑"
},
{
"word": "を"
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{
"word": "𛅒"
},
{
"word": "ん"
},
{
"word": "ー"
},
{
"word": "ゝ"
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{
"word": "ゞ"
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{
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"english": "The cat [is the thing that] ate the cat food.",
"roman": "Neko ga esa o tabeta.",
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{
"english": "There is a dog.",
"roman": "Inu ga iru.",
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"犬",
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],
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},
{
"english": "There is a tree.",
"roman": "Ki ga aru.",
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"き"
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],
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},
{
"english": "The love letter whose destination is you, where should I post it that it may reach you?",
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"roman": "atesaki ga kimi no rabu retā wa doko ni daseba todoku no ka na",
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"宛先",
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"ruby": [
[
"犬",
"いぬ"
],
[
"好",
"す"
],
[
"猫",
"ねこ"
],
[
"嫌",
"きら"
]
],
"text": "犬は好きだが、猫は嫌いだ。"
}
],
"glosses": [
"conjunction (\"but\")"
],
"links": [
[
"but",
"but"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(formal) conjunction (\"but\")"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "けれども"
}
],
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese formal terms",
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "About that thing from yesterday; […]",
"ref": "先日の件ですが、[…]",
"ruby": [
[
"先日",
"せんじつ"
],
[
"件",
"けん"
]
],
"text": "senjitsu no ken desu ga, […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to introduce a new topic into the discussion."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(formal) Used to introduce a new topic into the discussion."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "けれども"
}
],
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese literary terms",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with usage examples",
"Kagoshima Japanese"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "our [collective] heart",
"roman": "wareware ga kokoro",
"ruby": [
[
"我",
"われ"
],
[
"々",
"われ"
],
[
"心",
"こころ"
]
],
"text": "我々が心"
},
{
"english": "Fuji View Hill",
"roman": "Fujimigaoka",
"ruby": [
[
"富",
"ふ"
],
[
"士",
"じ"
],
[
"見",
"み"
],
[
"丘",
"おか"
]
],
"text": "富士見ヶ丘"
},
{
"english": "Gateway Plains (site of the Battle of Sekigahara)",
"roman": "Sekigahara",
"ruby": [
[
"関",
"せき"
],
[
"原",
"はら"
]
],
"text": "関ヶ原"
},
{
"english": "father's (Kagoshima dialect)",
"roman": "oyagga",
"text": "おやっが",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "brother's (Kagoshima dialect)",
"roman": "anyoga",
"text": "あにょが",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"possessive used to connect nouns, most often seen in place names as ヶ."
],
"links": [
[
"ヶ",
"ヶ#Japanese"
]
],
"qualifier": "literary or Kagoshima",
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary or Kagoshima) possessive used to connect nouns, most often seen in place names as ヶ."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "You piece of shit!",
"roman": "Kono kuso ga!",
"text": "このくそが！",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used after interjected nouns to express contempt."
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "ga",
"tags": [
"literary",
"possessive"
],
"word": "ヶ"
}
],
"word": "が"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"画",
"芽",
"賀",
"我",
"牙",
"瓦",
"雅",
"餓",
"臥",
"俄",
"峨",
"駕",
"蛾",
"衙"
],
"word": "が"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"が"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "syllable",
"title": "が",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"が"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "particle",
"title": "が",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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