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とうとうそのセールスマンは
わたし
私
を
せっとく
説得
して
こうか
高価
な
きかい
機械
を
か
買
わせた
。
Eventually the salesman persuaded me to buy the expensive machine.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
と う と う 1
finally; at last; ultimately; in the end  (often written with kana only)
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セ ー ル ス マ ン 4
noun
salesman
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わ た し 0
1. I; me
2. private affairs; personal matter; secrecy  (this meaning is restricted to reading わたくし)
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せ っ と く 0
persuasion
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こ う か 1
high price
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き か い 2
noun
1. machine; mechanism
2. instrument; appliance; apparatus  (often 器械)
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か う 0
'u' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to buy; to purchase  (in western Japan, 買う conjugates euphonically as こうた, こうて, etc.)
2. to value; to have a high opinion
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Kanji
私
シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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厶
ム   private
禾
grain
説
セツ   ゼイ   とく to explain, persuade   
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兑
eight elder brothers
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丷
eight
兄
ケイ   キョウ   elder brother; brother   あに elder brother   
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口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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儿
legs
言
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   いう to say   
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
得
トク    profit   える    うる to acquire   
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彳
step
㝵
an inch at dawn
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寸
スン   inch
旦
タン   ダン    dawn   
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
高
コウ   expensive; high   たか    たかい expensive, tall, high   たかまる to be elevated   たかめる to promote, heighten   
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冋
wide mouth
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冂
wide
亠
lid
価
カ   あたい price, value   
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亻
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
覀
west
機
キ    machine   はた loom   
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幾
キ   いく- how many, how much   
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戍
protection   
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人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
戈
tasseled spear
幺
short, tiny   
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糸
シ   いと thread   
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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丨
stick   
械
カイ    contraption   
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戒
カイ   いましめる to warn, admonish   
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廾
twenty; two hands   
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十
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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買
バイ   かう to buy   
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罒
net
貝
かい shellfish   
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ハ
katakana 'ha'; eight
目
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
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