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電話, でんわ
Takes suru, May take 'no'
1. telephone call, phone call
See 電話機, Abbreviation
2. telephone (device)
電話は繰り返し鳴っていた。
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Particle
1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
Conjunction
3. but, however, still, and
after the volitional form of a verb
4. regardless of, whether (or not)
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あり, 蟻, アリ
Usually in kana
ant
1匹のキリギリスと多くのアリが野原に住んでいた。
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あり, 在り, 有り
May take 'no', See 在る・ある・1, Usually in kana
1. existing (at the present moment)
NA-adjective, Colloquialism
2. alright, acceptable, passable
Irregular ru verb, plain form ends with -ri, Intransitive, See 在る・ある・2
3. to be (usu. of inanimate objects), to have