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さっそくさっきとってきた
さかな
ゆうしょく
夕食
して
たび
づかれ
したおなかすいている
つる
たち
べさせてやりました

Without delay the crane wife took the fish she had caught and served it up for dinner, feeding it to the crane family, tired and hungry from their journey.
Source: 鶴の笛林芙美子, translation: J. D. Wisgo
Readings
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つる
ふえ
  The Crane's Flute by
はやしふみこ
林芙美子 (translation: J. D. Wisgo)
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Conjugations and inflections
Words
0 4
Most common form: 早速
at once; immediately; without delay; promptly
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1
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun
some time ago; just now  (see also: 先:さき)
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1
'ru' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to take; to pick up; to harvest; to earn; to win; to choose
2. to steal  (see also: 盗る)
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0 2 1
noun
fish
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0
noun
evening meal; dinner
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1
'su' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to take out; to get out
2. to put out; to reveal; to show
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3
Most common form: 旅疲れ
noun
weary from traveling (travelling)
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1. to do  (often written with kana only)
2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)  (often written with kana only)
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0
Most common form: お腹
noun
stomach  (polite (teineigo) language)
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0
'ku' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty
2. to be hungry  (see also: お腹が空く)
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1
Most common form: つる
noun
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
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suffix
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)  (often written with kana only)
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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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Kanji
ギョ   さかな    うお fish   
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corner
デン   た rice field   
fire
セキ   ゆう night   
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katakana 'ta'
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   
シュツ   スイ   だ to take out, to put out   で to go out, to exit   
リョ   たび trip   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
ホウ   かた way, direction   
イ   ころも    きぬ clothes   
つる crane   
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crane; flying bird
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little bird
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cover; covered   
チョウ   とり bird   
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ハク   しろ white   しろ    しら-    
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
reach
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