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"Toshi"

(年)Toshi,nen - year,age; years

Eg.sentence

(Ichigatsu wa toshi no ichi-banme no tsukidesu.) 一月は年の一番目の月です。

January is the first month of the year.

一月(ichigatsu) - one month, first month (January)

一番目(ichi-banme) - the first

月(tsuki) - month,moon

(Karendā no hidzuke wa 1964-nen 9 tsuki 23-nichideshita). カレンダーの日付は１９６４年９月２３日でした。

The date on the calendar was September 23, 1964.

カレンダー(Karendā) - calender

日付(hidzuke) - date, dating

日(nichi) - day, Sunday

Also used to refer age

Otoshi o o kiki shite yoroshīdeshou ka. お年をお聞きしてよろしいでしょうか。

Might I ask your age?

聞き(kiki) - hearing, audible sound

する(suru) - to do,して(shite) - connective form

よろしい(yoroshī) - Ok, good,all right

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"Shikashi"

(然し) shikashi - however, but

Eg.sentence

Shikashi, sono kashikinko ni azukete iru mono o neratta ottokotachi ni, Hana o yūkai sarete shimau. Sono yūkai-han-tachi to wa, jitsu wa keijidatta. しかし、その貸金庫に預けているものを狙った男達に、ハナを誘拐されてしまう。その誘拐犯達とは、実は刑事だった。

However men, seeking the contents of that safe, kidnap Hana. And those men were really detectives.

その(sono) - that, the

貸金庫(kashikinko) - safe-deposit-box, 貸金(kashikin) - loan, advance

預ける(azukeru) - to leave,put(in someone's care), 預けて(azukete) - connective form

いる(iru) - to exist

もの(mono) - thing, matter

狙う(narau) - to after,to aim at,狙った(naratta) - past form

男(otoko) - male, man

達(tachi) - pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals

誘拐(yūkai) - kidnapping, abduction

する(suru) - to do,されて(sarete) - connective form

しまう(shimau) - to finish,to stop

犯(han) - perpetrators of crime

実(jitsu) - truth, reality

刑事(keiji) - (police) detectives

だった(Datta) - was

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