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いぜん
以前
は
ひよく
肥沃
な
へいや
平野
であったのに
いま
今
では
あ
荒
れ
ち
地
にすぎなくなっている。
Where there used to be a fertile plain, there is nothing but a wasteland now.
Grammar and points of interest
には, では, とは には, では, とは
 
emphasis
以前は肥沃な平野であったのに今では荒れ地にすぎなくなっている。
other forms of です other forms of です
 
以前は肥沃な平野であったのに今では荒れ地にすぎなくなっている。
のに のに
 
despite
以前は肥沃な平野であったのに今では荒れ地にすぎなくなっている。
Conjugations and inflections
  肥沃な is the inflected form of 'na' adjective 肥沃   ALL INFLECTIONS
  であった is the past form of irregular 'ru' godan verb である   ALL INFLECTIONS
  にすぎなくなっている is the progressive form of the くなる form of 'i' adjective にすぎない   ALL INFLECTIONS
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Words
い ぜ ん 1
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
ago; since; before; previous
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ひ よ く 0
fertility; productive
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へ い や 0 へ い や 1
noun
plain; open field
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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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particle
1. although; when; and yet; despite this; in spite of; even though; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless; for all that; notwithstanding that
2. while
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い ま で は 1
now; nowadays
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あ れ ち 0
Most common form: 荒地
noun
1. wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land
2. The Wasteland (poem by T.S. Eliot)
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expression, 'i' adjective
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
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Kanji
以
イ    (prefix) or   
前
ゼン   まえ before   
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刖
the body part and the sword
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⺼
ニク body part   
刂
トウ   かたな sword   
䒑
grass   
肥
ヒ   こえ manure   こえる to grow fat   こやす to fertilize   こやし fertilizer, manure   
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巴
ともえ comma shape, shape of magatama   
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己
コ   キ   おのれ self   
沃
ヨク    fertile; iodine   
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夭
calamity   
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
氵
スイ   みず water   
平
ヘイ   ビョウ   たいら flat   ひら ordinary; flat   
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丷
eight
干
カン   dry; drying frame   ひる to get dry   ほす to dry (something), to air   
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野
ヤ   の field   
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予
ヨ    previously, in advance   
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マ
katakana 'ma'
丁
チョウ   テイ    a (city) block; counter for long/narrow things, blocks of tofu   
里
リ   さと village   
今
コン   キン   いま now   
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亼
assembly, gathering   
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㇇
katakana fu   
荒
コウ   あらい violent, rough   あれる to be rough, stormy   あらす to lay waste   
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艹
grass   
亡
ボウ   モウ   dead   ない to be deceased, to have ceased to be   
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shelf
亠
lid
川
セン   かわ river   
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丨
stick   
地
チ   ジ    ground   
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也
ヤ   to be
土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
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