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かのじょ
彼女
かいしゃ
会社
ゆか
そうじ
掃除
よりましな
しごと
仕事
のぞ
んだ

She wanted a better job than cleaning office floors.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
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Words
1
pronoun
1. she; her
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0
noun
1. company; corporation
2. workplace
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1
noun
1. floor
2. stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player)
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0
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
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0
particle
1. than
2. from; out of; since; at; on
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0
1. better; less objectionable; preferable  (esp. マシ; often written with kana only)
noun (suffix)
2. more; increase; extra
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0
1. work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task
2. work  (physics terminology)
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0 2
'mu' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to desire
2. to wish for; to expect
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Kanji
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   
カイ   エ   あ to meet   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
ウン    say   
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ニ   ふた    ふた two   
ム   private
シャ    company   やしろ Shinto shrine   
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ジ   シ   しめ to show   
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
ショウ   ゆか floor   とこ bed   
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モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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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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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
广
stony cliff
ソウ   は to sweep   
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hand
broom   
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yo; yell
cover; covered   
キン   turban; cloth
ジ   ジョ   のぞ to exclude; to remove   
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ヨ   surplus; left over; extra   あま to leave over   あま to be left over   
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ウ    from   
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hook
katakana 'ha'; eight
hill   
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シ   ジ   つかえる to attend to   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
シ   samurai
ジ   ズ   こと thing; matter   
ボウ   モウ   のぞ to wish for   
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ボウ   モウ   dead   な to be deceased, to have ceased to be   
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shelf
lid
ガツ   ゲツ   つき month; moon   
オウ    king   
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