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いっしゅうかん
一週間
ずっと
ひとり
一人
だったので
かいわ
会話
に
う
飢
えていた。
I’d been on my own all week and was starving for conversation.
Grammar and points of interest
ので ので
 
because
一週間ずっと一人だったので会話に飢えていた。
particle に particle に
 
an overview of the uses of に
一週間ずっと一人だったので会話に飢えていた。
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Words
い っ し ゅ う か ん 3
noun
one week
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ず っ と 0 ず っ と 3
1. continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; all along; the whole time; all the way  (ずーっと and ずうっと are more emphatic)
2. much (better, etc.); by far; far and away
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ひ と り 2
noun
1. one person  (esp. 一人)
2. alone; unmarried; solitary  (esp. 独り; this meaning is restricted to reading ひとり)
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expression
was  (see also: だ; past tense of plain copula)
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の で 0
particle
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ....; given that...
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か い わ 0
conversation
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う え る 2
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
to starve; to thirst; to be hungry
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Kanji
一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
週
シュウ    a week   
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周
シュウ   まわり circumference   
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土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
冂
wide
口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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⻌
move
間
カン   ケン   あいだ interval, between   ま space, room   
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
門
モン   かど gate   
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人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
会
カイ   エ   あう to meet   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
云
ウン    say   
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二
ニ   ふたつ    ふた two   
厶
ム   private
話
ワ   はなす to talk   はなし talking   
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舌
ゼツ   した tongue   
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千
セン   1000; thousand   ち 1000   
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
十
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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丨
stick   
言
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   いう to say   
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飢
キ   starving   うえる to starve, to be hungry   
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飠
eat; food
几
キ    table   
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