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でんわ
電話
こえ
わたし
おぼ
ないものだった
The voice on the phone was unfamiliar to me.
Grammar and points of interest
Words
0
1. telephone call; phone call
2. telephone (device); phone  (see also: 電話機; abbreviation)
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1
noun
voice
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0
1. I; me
2. private affairs; personal matter; secrecy  (this meaning is restricted to reading わたくし)
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0
noun
1. learning by ear
2. memory of having heard something before  (see also: 聞き覚えがある)
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1
1. nonexistent; not being (there)  (see also: 亡い; often written with kana only)
2. unpossessed; unowned; not had
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2
noun
person  (rarely used without a qualifier)
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expression
was  (see also: ; past tense of plain copula)
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Kanji
デン    electricity   
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electricity
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second   おつ    
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
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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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
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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セイ   ショウ   こえ voice   こわ- voice   
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シ   samurai
corpse
シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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ム   private
grain
ブン   モン   き to listen, to hear   きこえる to be heard   
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ジ   みみ ear   
モン   かど gate   
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カク   おぼえる to remember   さめる to awake   さます to rouse, awaken   
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ケン   み to see   みえる to be seen; to appear   みせる to show   
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ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
legs
classroom
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small
cover; covered   
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