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ほたるぞく
蛍族
ベランダ
たばこ
煙草
を吸っている

Smokers are smoking on the balcony.
Conjugations and inflections
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Words
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noun
1. garden; yard; courtyard
2. field (of action); area
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Most common form: ホタル族
noun
smokers forced to smoke outside; firefly tribe
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suru verb - special class, intransitive verb
1. to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group)  (often written with kana only)
2. to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location)
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Most common form: たばこを吸う
expression, 'u' godan verb
to smoke a cigarette
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Kanji
ケイ   ほたる firefly   
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チュウ   むし insect   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
dot   
チュウ   ジュウ   なか middle   
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コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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stick   
classroom
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small
cover; covered   
ゾク    tribe   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
ホウ   かた way, direction   
シ   や arrow   
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ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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ジン   ニン   ひと person   
エン   けむり smoke   けむ to smoke (chimney etc.)   けむ smoky   
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west
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
カ   fire   ひ    ほ-    
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eight
ソウ   くさ grass   
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ソウ   サッ   early; fast   はや early   はやまる be hasty   はやめる to expedite, to hasten   
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ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
grass   
キュウ   す to suck, inhale   
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キュウ   およ to amount to, reach   およぼす to exert   およ and, as well as   
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three
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