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知らない, しらない
1. unknown, strange
Interjection
2. I don't care, that's irrelevant, whatever
しらない人のなかにいると、私はどうもくつろげない。
知る, 識る, しる
Conjugated: 知らない
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to know, to be aware (of), to be conscious (of), to learn (of), to find out, to discover
2. to sense, to feel, to notice, to realize
3. to understand, to comprehend, to grasp, to appreciate
4. to remember, to be familiar with, to be acquainted with
5. to experience, to go through, to know (e.g. hardship)
あなたは１９９０年から彼女を知っているのですか？
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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。
こと, 事, 縡
1. thing, matter
2. incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis
3. circumstances, situation, state of affairs
4. work, business, affair
5. after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
「Ｕ．Ｆ．Ｏとは何を表しているの」「未確認飛行物体のことだと思う」
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琴, 箏, 筝, こと, そう
1. koto (13-stringed Japanese zither)
Only こと, Archaism
2. stringed instrument
Only 箏, 筝
3. zheng (Chinese zither), guzheng
彼女は琴を弾くことがとても好きだ。
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異, 殊, こと, け
Only こと, NA-adjective, Noun, used as a prefix, Archaism
1. difference (from one another), different thing, other
2. unusual, extraordinary
糊塗, こと
Takes suru, Transitive
patching up (e.g. a failure), covering up (e.g. a mistake), glossing over
こと
Particle, particle always used at sentence-end
1. particle indicating a command
Female term or language, often as ことね
2. particle indicating mild enthusiasm
3. particle indicating a gentle interrogative
at sentence end as ことよ
4. particle used to soften a judgment or conclusion