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読める, よめる

Ichidan verb, Intransitive

1. to be able to read, to be legible, to be decipherable

2. to be readable (text, etc.), to read well

3. to understand, to divine, to perceive, to see

読む, よむ

Conjugated: 読める

Godan verb, Transitive

1. to read

2. to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant

3. to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine

4. to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji)

5. to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time)

彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。

の

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

だから

Conjunction, See ですから

1. so, therefore, accordingly, consequently, on those grounds, that is why, for that reason

Expression, at the start of a sentence

2. like I said, I told you already

１日中テニスをしていたのだから。