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。
が
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)
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。
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