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わたし
かのじょ
彼女
まえ
では
いしゅく
萎縮
してしまう

I shrink in her presence.
Conjugations and inflections
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Words
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1. I; me
2. private affairs; personal matter; secrecy  (this meaning is restricted to reading わたくし)
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pronoun
1. she; her
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noun
1. in front (of); before (e.g. a building)
2. before; earlier; previously; prior; ago; (minutes) to (the hour)
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conjunction, interjection (kandoushi)
then; well; so; well then  (see also: それでは)
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withering; atrophy; contraction; dwarf
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Kanji
シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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ム   private
grain
ヒ   かれ he   
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step
ヒ   かわ skin, leather   
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stick   
cliff
また again   
ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
ゼン   まえ before   
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the body part and the sword
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ニク body part   
トウ   かたな sword   
grass   
イ   なえる to lose strength, to become weak, to wither   
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grass   
イ   ゆだねる to entrust, to abandon oneself to   
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シュク   ちぢ to shrink, be diminished   ちぢまる to be shortened   ちぢめる to abridge   ちぢらす to crinkle, crimp   ちぢれる to be frizzled, curly   
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宿
シュク   inn   やど an inn   やど to lodge   やど to give lodgings   
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one hundred men
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ヒャク    hundred; 100   
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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    
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
roof   
シ   いと thread   
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