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読む, よむ
Conjugated: 読んだ
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。
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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
は
Particle, pronounced わ in modern Japanese
1. indicates sentence topic
2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
3. adds emphasis
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ともかく, 兎も角
Adverb
1. anyhow, anyway, somehow or other, generally speaking, in any case, be that as it may
often as …はともかく
2. apart from ..., setting ... aside
ともかく合格してうれしい。
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として
Expression
1. as (i.e. in the role of), for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
2. apart from... (used to change the topic)
before a negative form
3. even (e.g. "not even a single person")
See とする・1, after a volitional form
4. thinking that..., trying to...
彼女は宝石を盗もうとして捕まった。
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