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おうか
桜花
が
さか
盛
りであった。
The cherry blossoms were at their best.
Grammar and points of interest
other forms of です other forms of です
 
だ, である, であります, でございます, ではない etc
桜花が盛りであった。
Conjugations and inflections
  であった is the past form of irregular 'ru' godan verb である   ALL INFLECTIONS
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Words
お う か 1
noun
cherry blossom
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さ か り 0 さ か り 3
noun, suffix
1. peak (e.g. of cherry blossom season); height (e.g. of summer)  (ざかり when used as a suffix)
2. prime (of one's life); one's best days
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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
桜
オウ   さくら cherry tree   
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⺍
small
女
ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
木
モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
丨
stick   
花
カ   はな flower   
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艹
grass   
化
カ   ケ   ばける to change   
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亻
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
匕
さじ spoon   
盛
セイ   ジョウ   さかん popular; enthusiastic   さかる prosper, flourish   もる serve, heap up (food)   
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皿
さら dish   
成
セイ   ジョウ   なる to become   なす to perform, to accomplish   
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戈
tasseled spear
勹
wrap
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