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せいじ
政治
よご
れた
ふせい
不正
しごと
仕事
であるという
わたし
たち
こくみん
国民
おも
っている
ことです
It is our national conviction that politics is a dirty and dishonest pursuit.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
0
noun
politics; government
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0
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to get dirty; to become dirty
2. to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity  (see also: 汚れる)
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0
injustice; unfairness; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity; dishonesty; illegality; fraud
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0
1. work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task
2. work  (physics terminology)
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3
be; is  (see also: , であります; formal or literary copula)
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expression
1. called; named; that says; that  (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
we; us
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0 3
noun
nation; nationality; people; citizen
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prefix
honorific/polite/humble prefix  (see also: ; usu. before a term with an kun-yomi reading, おん is more formal; honorific; polite (teineigo) language; humble; often written with kana only)
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2
'u' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to think; to consider; to believe  (想う has connotations of heart-felt)
2. to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
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2
noun
1. thing; matter  (often written with kana only)
2. incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis  (often written with kana only)
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Kanji
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セイ   ショウ   まつりごと government   
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ジ   チ   おさめる to govern   おさまる to be at peace   なお to get better   なお to cure   
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オ   きたな dirty   けが to defile, stain   けがれる to be defiled   けがらわしい dirty, defiled   よご to make dirty   よごれる to be dirty   
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フ   ブ    not   
セイ   ショウ   ただしい correct   ただ to correct   まさ precise, exact   
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シ   ジ   つかえる to attend to   
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ジ   ズ   こと thing; matter   
シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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コク   くに country   
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ミン   たみ people   
シ   おも to think   
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