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あなた
かた
にく
べない
りゆう
理由
どうぞ
おし
えて
ください
Please tell me why you don't eat meat.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
4 3 0
Most common form: 貴方がた
you (plural)  (honorific)
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2
noun
1. flesh
2. meat
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2
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to eat
2. to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
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0
noun
reason; pretext; motive
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1
1. please; kindly; I beg of you  (see also: 何卒)
2. by all means; feel free; you are welcome
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0
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to teach; to instruct
2. to tell; to inform
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3
expression
1. please give me  (often written with kana only; honorific)
2. please do for me  (after te-form of a verb or a noun prefixed with o- or go-; often written with kana only; honorific)
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Kanji
ホウ   かた way, direction   
ニク   meat
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ナイ   ダイ   うち inside   
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wide
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
ショク   ジキ    food   たべる to eat   く to eat   
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リョウ   よ good   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
リ    logic   
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リ   さと village   
オウ    king   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
ユ   ユウ   ユイ   よし reason   
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キョウ   おしえる to teach   おそわる to be taught   
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コウ    filial piety   
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old
シ   ス   こ child   
ぼく strike   
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