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マーガレットは、この
まえ
前
の
にちようび
日曜日
に
きみ
君
は
かのじょ
彼女
のお
とう
父
さんにあったけれど、テニスがとてもうまい。
Margaret, whose father you met last Sunday, is a very good tennis player.
Grammar and points of interest
いる / います and ある / あります
 
existence; possession
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JLPT:
particle に
 
an overview of the uses of に
うまい and うまく
 
delicious / going well
Conjugations and inflections
あった is the past form of irregular 'ru' godan verb ある   ALL INFLECTIONS
Words and names
noun
1. marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens)  (this meaning is restricted to reading マーガレット)
2. Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)
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adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi), suffix
1. ago; before (some event); previously; (minutes) to (the hour)  (see also: 前)
2. in front (of); before (e.g. the house)
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adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
Sunday
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1. you; buddy; pal  (also used colloquially by young females; male term or language; familiar language)
noun
2. monarch; ruler; sovereign; (one's) master  (orig. meaning)
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pronoun
1. she; her
2. her
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noun
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy; dada  (see also: 父さん; honorific)
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irregular 'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live  (see also: 居る; often written with kana only)
2. to have  (often written with kana only)
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conjunction, particle
but; however; although
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noun
tennis
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1. very; awfully; exceedingly  (とっても is more emphatic; often written with kana only)
2. (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)  (before a negative form; often written with kana only)
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1. skillful; skilful; clever; expert; wise; successful  (esp. 上手い,巧い; often written with kana only)
2. delicious; appetizing; appetising; tasty  (esp. 美味い,甘い; often written with kana only)
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Kanji
前
ゼン   まえ before   
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刖
the body part and the sword
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⺼
ニク body part   
刂
トウ   かたな sword   
䒑
grass   
日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
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曜
ヨウ    day of the week   
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翟
the little bird gives two yos
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隹
little bird
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习
yo = to yell / say hi
君
クン   きみ you   
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口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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尹
slashed yo
彼
ヒ   かれ he   
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彳
step
皮
ヒ   かわ skin, leather   
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丨
stick   
厂
cliff
又
また again   
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女
ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
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父
フ   ちち father   
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ハ
ハチ   katakana 'ha'; eight   やつ    よう eight   
K
乂
crossed swords
More info on this sentence: Google Japan ⇗ Sentence translate
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Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
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