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ぶどうしゅ
葡萄酒
のない
しょくじ
食事
なんて
たいよう
太陽
の
かがや
輝
きのない
ひ
日
のようなものだ。
A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.
Grammar and points of interest
のような のような
 
turns a noun into an adjective
葡萄酒のない食事なんて太陽の輝きのない日のようなものだ。
なんて なんて
 
for emphasis
葡萄酒のない食事なんて太陽の輝きのない日のようなものだ。
ものだ ものだ
 
is (expressing general truth; common sense; emotion; reflection)
葡萄酒のない食事なんて太陽の輝きのない日のようなものだ。
Words
ぶ ど う し ゅ 2 ぶ ど う し ゅ 0
(grape) wine
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な い 1
1. nonexistent; not being (there)  (see also: 亡い; often written with kana only)
2. unpossessed; unowned; not had
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し ょ く じ 0
noun
1. meal
2. to eat
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な ん て 1
noun or verb acting prenominally, adverb
1. how ..!; what ..!  (often written with kana only)
2. what (questioning)
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た い よ う 1
noun
sun; solar
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か が や き 0 か が や き 4 か が や き 3
noun
brightness; brilliance; brilliancy; radiance; glitter
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ひ 0
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
1. day; days  (this meaning is restricted to form 日)
2. sun; sunshine; sunlight
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like; similar to  (see also: 様だ, ように; often written with kana only)
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も の 2
noun
person  (rarely used without a qualifier)
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Kanji
葡
ブ    grape   ポ Portugal   
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匍
ホ    crawling, creeping   
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勹
wrap
甫
ホ    the first time   
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用
ヨウ   もちいる to use   
十
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
丨
stick   
丶
dot   
艹
grass   
萄
ドウ    grape vine   
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匋
wrapped up can
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缶
カン    can   
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酒
シュ   さけ    さか- sake   
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氵
スイ   みず water   
酉
sake flask   とり sign of the bird   
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西
セイ   サイ   にし west   
食
ショク   ジキ    food   たべる to eat   くう to eat   
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良
リョウ   よい good   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
事
ジ   ズ   こと thing; matter   
太
タ   タイ   ふとい fat   ふとる to get fat, to put on weight   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
陽
ヨウ    positive, male, sun   
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昜
ヨウ    glorious, bright   
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勿
モチ   not
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豕
pig
旦
タン   ダン    dawn   
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
⻖
hill   
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輝
キ   かがやく to shine   
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光
コウ   ひかり light, sunshine   ひかる to shine, twinkle   
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小
ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
兀
one pair of legs
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儿
legs
軍
グン    army   
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冖
cover; covered   
車
シャ   くるま car   
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