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わたしたち
私達
とり
パンくず
べる
つめていました
その
とき
くしゃみしたらあっという
その
とり
んでいってしまいました

We were watching the bird eat the crumbs; then I sneezed, and he was gone in a flash.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
3
Most common form: 私たち
we; us
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0
Most common form: とり
noun
1. bird
2. bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry  (see also: )
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noun
(bread) crumb  (often written with kana only)
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2
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to eat
2. to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
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0 3
ichidan verb, transitive verb
to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on
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2
noun
1. time; hour; moment  (刻 signifies a time of day, 秋 signifies an important time)
noun, adverb
2. occasion; case  (this meaning is restricted to form 時)
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2
noun
1. sneeze  (often written with kana only)
expression
2. spoken twice in response to someone sneezing as a charm against an early death  (idiomatic expression; often written with kana only)
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1. to do  (often written with kana only)
2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)  (often written with kana only)
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Most common form: あっと言う間に
expression, adverb
just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; in the time it takes to say "ah!"
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0
'bu' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to fly; to soar  (esp. 飛ぶ)
2. to jump; to leap; to spring; to bound; to hop  (esp. 跳ぶ)
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Kanji
シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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ム   private
grain
タツ    arrive   
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ヨウ   ひつじ sheep   
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
move
チョウ   とり bird   
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ハク   しろ white   しろ    しら-    
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
reach
fire
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   
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
ジ   とき time, occasion   
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ジ   temple   てら Buddhist temple   
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スン   inch
カン   ケン   あいだ interval, between   ま space, room   
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モン   かど gate   
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ヒ   と to fly   とばす to let fly   
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ます a measure (of a drink)   
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twenty; two hands   
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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   
stick   
second   おつ    
ice   
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