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かれ
ちょうしょく
朝食
える
えない
うちに
でんわ
電話
った

Hardly had he finished breakfast when the telephone rang.
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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0
ichidan verb, transitive verb, auxiliary verb
1. to finish  (this meaning is restricted to form 終える, 了える)
ichidan verb, transitive verb
2. to graduate
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0
noun
jettisoned cargo
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0
1. telephone call; phone call
2. telephone (device); phone  (see also: 電話機; abbreviation)
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0
'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
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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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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
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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メイ   な to chirp, to twitter   な to sound, to ring   ならす to make ring   
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チョウ   とり bird   
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ハク   しろ white   しろ    しら-    
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reach
fire
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