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かれ
ちょうしょく
朝食
わる
わらない
うちに
いしゃ
医者
さん

Hardly had he finished breakfast when the doctor came.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
1
pronoun
1. he; him
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0
noun
breakfast
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2
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to eat
2. to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
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0
'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb, auxiliary verb
to finish; to end; to close  (also written 了る, 卒る, etc.)
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0
noun
jettisoned cargo
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0
noun
(medical) doctor; physician  (see also: お医者さん; pol. お医者さん; sensitive)
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suffix
1. Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san  (see also: ; after a person's name (or position, etc.); honorific; familiar language)
2. makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions)  (see also: ご苦労さん; usu. after a noun or na-adjective prefixed with お- or ご-; polite (teineigo) language)
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1
Most common form: くる
irregular verb くる, intransitive verb
1. to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive
irregular verb くる, intransitive verb, auxiliary verb
2. to come back; to do ... and come back  (see also: 行って来る)
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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   
チョウ   あさ morning   
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ガツ   ゲツ   つき month; moon   
ten times earlier
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ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
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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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
ショク   ジキ    food   たべる to eat   く to eat   
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リョウ   よ good   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
シュウ   end   おわる to come to an end   おえる to bring to an end   
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シ   いと thread   
トウ   ふゆ winter   
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ice
go
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イ    doctor   
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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   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
side open box
シャ   もの person, someone   
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old
ライ   く to come   きた to be forthcoming   きた to induce   
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eight
ミ    not yet   
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