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にんげん
人間
はどのくらい
なが
長
く
い
生
きる
かではなくて、いかに
い
生
きる
か、その
い
生
き
かた
方
が
もんだい
問題
である。
It matters not how long we live, but how.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
に ん げ ん 0
noun
1. human being; person; man; mankind; humankind
2. character (of a person)
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which; what (way)  (see also: 此の, 其の, 彼の; often written with kana only)
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く ら い 3
1. dark; gloomy
2. dark (in colour); dull
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な が い 2
1. long (distance)  (this meaning is restricted to form 長い)
2. long (time); lengthy
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い き る 2
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to live; to exist
2. to make a living; to subsist
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な い 1
1. nonexistent; not being (there)  (see also: 亡い; often written with kana only)
2. unpossessed; unowned; not had
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い か に 2
1. how; in what way  (often written with kana only)
2. however much; however (e.g. easy, rich, sad); whatever; how much  (often written with kana only)
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い き か た 4 い き か た 3
noun
way of life; how to live
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も ん だ い 0
noun
1. question (e.g. on a test); problem
2. problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter
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で あ る 3
be; is  (see also: だ, であります; formal or literary copula)
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Kanji
人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
間
カン   ケン   あいだ interval, between   ま space, room   
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
門
モン   かど gate   
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長
チョウ   ながい long   
生
セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   うむ to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   おう to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
方
ホウ   かた way, direction   
問
モン   とい question   とう to ask   とん wholesale   
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口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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題
ダイ    topic   
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頁
ページ page, leaf of a book   
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丆
whereupon one
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
貝
かい shellfish   
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ハ
katakana 'ha'; eight
目
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
是
ゼ    just so, correctness, justice, right   
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疋
ヒキ    roll / bolt of cloth   
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