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プロポーズもしないうちから、
けっこんしき
結婚式
の
けいかく
計画
をするのは、
ほんまつてんとう
本末転倒
だ。
Planning the wedding before proposing is putting the cart before the horse.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
プ ロ ポ ー ズ 3
(marriage) proposal
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1. to do  (often written with kana only)
2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)  (often written with kana only)
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う ち 0 う ち 1
1. inside; within
2. while  (see also: ないうちに; also 裡; often written with kana only)
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け っ こ ん し き 3
noun
marriage ceremony; wedding; nuptials
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け い か く 0
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
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ほ ん ま つ て ん と う 1
failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards  (yojijukugo)
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Kanji
結
ケツ   むすぶ    ゆわえる to bind   ゆう to braid   
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吉
キツ   キチ    good luck   
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士
シ   samurai
口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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糸
シ   いと thread   
婚
コン    marriage   
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女
ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
昏
コン   くらい dark   
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氏
シ    family; Mr / Mrs   うじ family name   
日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
式
シキ    ceremony, method, style   
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工
コウ   ク    work; construction; craft   
弋
shoot
計
ケイ   はからう to arrange   はかる to measure, compute   
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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   
言
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   いう to say   
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画
ガ   カク   draw
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由
ユ   ユウ   ユイ   よし reason   
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凵
open box
本
ホン   book   もと origin   
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木
モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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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   
末
マツ   バツ   すえ end   
転
テン   ころがる to roll (intr.)   ころがす to roll (tr.)   ころげる to roll about   ころぶ to fall over   
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云
ウン    say   
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二
ニ   ふたつ    ふた two   
厶
ム   private
車
シャ   くるま car   
倒
トウ   たおれる to fall over   たおす to knock down   
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亻
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
到
トウ    arrive   
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至
シ   いたる to reach, to lead to   
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土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
刂
トウ   かたな sword   
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