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大学, 大學, だいがく
1. university, college
See 大学寮, historical term, Abbreviation
2. former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators)
See 四書
3. the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
合格者の過半数は大学出身者であった。
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時代, じだい
1. period, epoch, era, age
2. the times, those days
3. oldness, ancientness, antiquity
See 時代物・1, Abbreviation
4. antique, period piece
今や時代との競争になった。
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Particle
1. at (place, time), in, on, during
2. to (direction, state), toward, into
3. for (purpose)
4. because of (reason), with
5. by, from
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いつも, 何時も
Adverb, Usually in kana
1. always, all the time, at all times
with neg. verb
2. never
May take 'no'
3. usual, regular, habitual, customary
彼はいつも学校に遅れる。
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, 隣り, 鄰, となり
May take 'no'
1. next (to), adjoining, adjacent
2. house next door, neighbouring house, next-door neighbour, next-door neighbor
ジョーダンさんは彼の隣に座った。
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となる
Conjugated: となり
Expression, Godan verb, formal or literary term
to become, to be
すべては燃えて灰となった。
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隣る, となる
Conjugated: となり
Godan verb, Intransitive, See 隣・1, Archaism
to neighbor (neighbour), to be adjacent to, to be next to, to border
Particle, See 乃, occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之
1. indicates possessive
2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
See が・1
3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
often ん
4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion
Female term or language
5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
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