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この
しょうせつ
小説
は
さっか
作家
の
さいこう
最高
の
できば
出来栄
えを
しめ
示
しているようだと
おも
思
う。
I think this novel shows the author at his best.
Grammar and points of interest
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5
JLPT:
particle を
 
direct object marker
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4
JLPT:
と思います（とおもいます） / と思う（とおもう）
 
to think ~; I think ~; you think ~
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4
JLPT:
ようだ
 
appears to be
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5
JLPT:
verb て form + います／いる
 
'ing' - present continuous / progressive
Conjugations and inflections
  示している is the progressive form of 'su' godan verb 示す   ALL INFLECTIONS
  思う is the plain form of 'u' godan verb 思う   ALL INFLECTIONS
Words
novel; (short) story
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1
noun
author; writer; novelist; artist
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1
highest; supreme; the most
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2
noun
1. result; effect; performance; success
2. workmanship; execution; shape and quality of (an article); finishing touches
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'su' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to tell; to exemplify; to make apparent
2. to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.)
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3
2
noun
1. yang (i.e. the positive)  (opposite: 陰)
2. the open (i.e. a visible place)  (see also: 陽に)
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'u' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to think; to consider; to believe  (想う has connotations of heart-felt)
2. to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
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Kanji
This sentence contains too many kanji (11) to display components. Click a kanji's blue box and use the links to view components.
小
ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
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説
セツ   ゼイ   とく to explain, persuade   
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作
サク   サ   つくる to make   
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家
カ   ケ   house   いえ    や    
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2
最
サイ   もっとも most   
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3
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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出
シュツ   スイ   だす to take out, to put out   でる to go out, to exit   
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来
ライ   くる to come   きたる to be forthcoming   きたす to induce   
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栄
エイ   はえる to shine, to look attractive   はえ    さかえる to shine, to be brilliant   
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示
ジ   シ   しめす to show   
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思
シ   おもう to think   
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More info on this sentence: Google Japan ⇗ Sentence translate
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Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
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