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エベレスト
さん
山
は、いわば、
せかい
世界
の
やね
屋根
である。
Mount Everest is, so to speak, the roof of the world.
Grammar and points of interest
other forms of です other forms of です
 
だ, である, であります, でございます, ではない etc
エベレスト山は、いわば、世界の屋根である。
Conjugations and inflections
  である is the plain form of irregular 'ru' godan verb である   ALL INFLECTIONS
Words
エ ベ レ ス ト 0
Everest
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い わ ば 1 い わ ば 2 い わ ば 0
so to speak; so to call it; as it were  (often written with kana only)
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せ か い 1
noun
1. the world; society; the universe
2. sphere; circle; world
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や ね 1
noun
roof
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で あ る 3
be; is  (see also: だ, であります; formal or literary copula)
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Kanji
山
サン   やま mountain   
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世
セ   セイ   よ the world   
界
カイ    world   
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介
カイ    mediate   
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
丨
stick   
田
デン   た rice field   
屋
オク   や roof   
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尸
corpse
至
シ   いたる to reach, to lead to   
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
厶
ム   private
土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
根
コン   ね root   
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艮
good
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   
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