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故障, こしょう
Takes suru, Intransitive
1. fault, trouble, breakdown, failure, being out of order
Transitive
2. damage (to a part of the body), injury, hurt
3. problem, hitch, obstacle, hindrance
4. objection, protest
車が故障したので遅れました。
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する, 為る
Conjugated: している
1. to do, to carry out, to perform
2. to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into)
3. to serve as, to act as, to work as
4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
as 〜にする,〜とする
5. to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as
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ような, 様な
Pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi), See ようだ・2, See ように・1
1. like, similar to
Expression, See ような気がする, Colloquialism, Abbreviation, at sentence end; short for ような気がする
2. (I) think (that), (I) have a feeling (that)
at sentence end; short for ような感じ(がする)
3. feels like, feels similar to, feels as if
人生は旅のようなものだ。
, 乃
Particle, orig. written 乃 or 之
1. indicates possessive
2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
See が・1
3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
at sentence-end; falling tone
4. indicates a confident conclusion
Female term or language, at sentence-end
5. indicates emotional emphasis
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, 出
Noun, used as a suffix
1. coming out, going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon)
2. attending (work), appearing (on stage), one's turn to go on
3. start, beginning
4. origins, background, person (or item) originating from ..., graduate of ..., native of ..., member of ... (lineage)
5. architectural member that projects outward
彼は貴族の出である。
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Particle, indicates location of action
1. at, in
indicates time of action
2. at, when
indicates means of action
3. by, with
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, い
Conjunction, Auxiliary, See ないで・1, Archaism, after a -nai stem
without doing ...