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より
よ
良
い
せいかつ
生活
を
もと
求
めて
がんば
頑張
って
ちょきん
貯金
をしても、それで
しごと
仕事
に
くる
苦
しむ
ようになっては
ほんまつてんとう
本末転倒
だ。
You’re putting the cart before the horse if you work hard to save money for a better life, but end up overwhelmed by work.
Conjugations and inflections
Words
superior; better
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せ い か つ 0
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
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も と め る 3
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to want; to wish for
2. to request; to demand
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expression
do your best; go for it; hold on; keep at it
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ち ょ き ん 0
1. putting money aside; savings; deposit (e.g. in a bank)
2. accumulated surplus of wins; wins in the bank  (baseball term)
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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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そ れ で 0 そ れ で 3
conjunction
and; thereupon; because of that  (often written with kana only)
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し ご と 0
1. work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task
2. work  (physics terminology)
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く る し む 3
'mu' godan verb, intransitive verb
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
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expression, 'ru' godan verb
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into  (often written with kana only)
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ほ ん ま つ て ん と う 1
failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards  (yojijukugo)
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Kanji
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良
リョウ   よい good   
生
セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   うむ to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   おう to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
活
カツ    activity, resuscitation   
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求
キュウ   もとめる to request, want, demand   
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頑
ガン    stubborn   
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張
チョウ   はる to stretch   
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貯
チョ    savings   
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金
キン   コン   かね gold; money   
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仕
シ   ジ   つかえる to attend to   
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事
ジ   ズ   こと thing; matter   
苦
ク   くるしい painful   くるしむ to suffer   くるしめる to torment   にがい bitter   にがる to feel bitter   
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本
ホン   book   もと origin   
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末
マツ   バツ   すえ end   
転
テン   ころがる to roll (intr.)   ころがす to roll (tr.)   ころげる to roll about   ころぶ to fall over   
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倒
トウ   たおれる to fall over   たおす to knock down   
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