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まさかマジ
しゃっきん
借金
さいそく
催促
でんわ
電話
なの
No way, is this really a debt collection call?
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Words
1
interjection (kandoushi)
1. by no means; never!; well, I never!; you don't say!; certainly (not)  (often written with kana only)
2. something unexpected; emergency  (see also: まさかの時; often written with kana only)
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1
1. serious (not capricious or flirtatious)  (see also: 真面目; colloquialism; abbreviation)
auxiliary verb
2. cannot; should not; will not; must not  (see also: まい)
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3
debt; loan; liabilities
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1
pressing; demanding; urging; demand; request; claim
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0
1. telephone call; phone call
2. telephone (device); phone  (see also: 電話機; abbreviation)
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expression
1. used to make an assertion  (at sentence-end with falling intonation; female term or language; colloquialism)
2. used to ask a question  (at sentence-end with rising intonation; female term or language; colloquialism)
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Kanji
シャク   かりる to borrow   
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セキ   シャク   ancient; old   むかし ancient   
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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
キョウ   とも together   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
キン   コン   かね gold; money   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
eight
オウ    king   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
サイ   hold a meeting   もよお to hold (a meeting), to sponsor   
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the mountain with the little bird
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サン   やま mountain   
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little bird
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ソク   うなが to press, to stimulate   
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ソク   あし foot; leg   た to add   た    たりる to be sufficient   
デン    electricity   
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electricity
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second   おつ    
フ   あめ rain   
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ワ   はな to talk   はなし talking   
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ゼツ   した tongue   
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セン   1000; thousand   ち 1000   
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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stick   
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   い to say   
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