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かれ
しょうぼう
消防
しごと
仕事
という
おおいそが
大忙
まった
ひま
いずれそう
He says firefighting is a feast or famine job.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
1
pronoun
1. he; him
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0
1. to say; to utter; to declare
2. to name; to call
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0
1. fire fighting
noun
2. fire department; fire brigade
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0
1. work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task
2. work  (physics terminology)
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expression
1. called; named  (often written with kana only)
2. as many as; as much as  (after a quantity; often written with kana only)
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3
very busy (person or thing)
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0 4
1. really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly; perfectly
2. indeed
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0
1. spare time; free time; leisure
noun
2. time (e.g. time it takes to do something)  (this meaning is restricted to reading ひま, ヒマ)
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0
1. where; which; who  (often written with kana only)
2. anyway; anyhow; at any rate  (often written with kana only)
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1. so; really; seeming
2. appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of  (after masu stem or adj-stem)
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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   
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   い to say   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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ショウ   け to extinguish   きえる to go out   
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ショウ    resemble   
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small
ガツ   ゲツ   つき month; moon   
スイ   みず water   
ボウ   ふせ to protect, to defend (against)   
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ホウ   かた way, direction   
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   
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   
ボウ   いそがしい busy   
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ボウ   モウ   dead   な to be deceased, to have ceased to be   
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shelf
lid
heart
ゼン   まった entirely   すべ everything   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
オウ    king   
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ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
カ   ひま free time   
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Ko with the striped corpse again
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katakana 'ko'
corpse
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
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