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しかし、
こどもたち
子供達
が
す
好
きで、
じぶん
自分
の
しごと
仕事
を
たの
楽
しんでいました。
But she liked children and she enjoyed her work.
Grammar and points of interest
particle の particle の
 
noun replacement / nominalization
しかし、子供達が好きで、自分の仕事を楽しんでいました。
particle を particle を
 
direct object marker
しかし、子供達が好きで、自分の仕事を楽しんでいました。
しかし しかし
 
however, but
しかし、子供達が好きで、自分の仕事を楽しんでいました。
Conjugations and inflections
  楽しんでいました is the polite past form of the progressive form of 'mu' godan verb 楽しむ   ALL INFLECTIONS
Words
し か し 2 し か し 1
conjunction
however; but  (often written with kana only)
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こ ど も た ち 3
Most common form: 子供たち
noun
children
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す き 2
liking; fondness; love  (opposite: 嫌い)
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じ ぶ ん 0
1. myself; yourself; oneself; himself; herself
2. I; me
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し ご と 0
1. work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task
2. work  (physics terminology)
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た の し む 3
to enjoy (oneself)
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Kanji
子
シ   ス   こ child   
供
キョウ   ク   そなえる to make an offering   とも servant, attendant   
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亻
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
共
キョウ   とも together   
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艹
grass   
一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
ハ
katakana 'ha'; eight
達
タツ    arrive   
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羊
ヨウ   ひつじ sheep   
土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
⻌
move
好
コウ   このむ    すく to like   
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女
ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
自
ジ   シ   みずから self   
分
ブン   ブ   フン   わける to divide, to distinguish   わかる to understand   わかれる to be divided   わかつ to share, distribute   
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刀
トウ   かたな sword   
仕
シ   ジ   つかえる to attend to   
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士
シ   samurai
事
ジ   ズ   こと thing; matter   
楽
ガク   ラク    music   たのしい happy, pleasant   たのしむ to be happy   
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白
ハク   しろい white   しろ    しら-    
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
⺢
スイ   みず water   
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   
丨
stick   
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