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44 partial word matches found in search '小さな裸電球が唯一の明りだった。'

noun, noun (prefix)

1. smallness; small item

2. short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days) (see also: 小の月)

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prefix

1. small; little; slight (see also: 小皿)

2. slightly less than; just about (see also: 小半日, 弱)

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さな

pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)

small; little; tiny (see also: 大きな)

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prefix

narrow; thin

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prefix

small; little (see also: さざ波)

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さ

noun

baby; infant (archaic)

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prefix

1. small; narrow (see also: 小川)

2. familiar prefix (see also: 小野)

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suffix

small; little; dear (figurative sense) (regional dialect: Ryuukyuu-ben)

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さ

suffix

1. -ness (nominalizing suffix indicating degree or condition)

particle

2. (sentence end, mainly masc.) indicates assertion

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さ

Most common form: 差

noun, noun (suffix)

1. difference; variation

noun

2. difference (mathematics)

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な

particle

1. (sentence end, mainly masc.) indicates emotion or emphasis

2. (used with masu stem verb) command (from なさい; abbreviation)

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な

Most common form: 名

noun

1. name; given name

2. title

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な

Most common form: 菜

noun

1. greens; vegetables

2. rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed

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noun, 'no' adjective

naked; nude; bare

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はだかでんきゅう

noun

naked light bulb

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でんきゅう

noun

light bulb (see also: 白熱電球)

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Most common form: 稲妻

Word containing out-dated kanji or kanji usage

noun

lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt

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noun

1. sphere (mathematics)

suffix, counter

2. counter for balls (baseball term)

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noun

1. ball (for sport, games, etc.)

2. kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan (see also: 蹴鞠)

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Most common form: 玉

noun

1. ball; sphere; globe; orb

2. bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet

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が

particle

1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)

2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)

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が

noun

moth

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'no' adjective, adverb

only; sole; unique

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Most common form: ただ

'no' adjective, noun

1. ordinary; common; usual (often written with kana only)

2. free of charge (only 只; often written with kana only)

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numeric, prefix

1. one (see also: ワン; １ can also be read ワン. 壱, 弌 and 壹 are used in legal documents)

'no' adjective, suffix

2. best

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prefix

1. one (see also: 一; esp. ひと)

numeric

2. one (when counting aloud, usu. ひ or ひい)

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numeric

one (originally from Chinese 'yī')

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most (archaic)

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Most common form: 一つ

numeric

1. one

noun

2. for one thing (often used in itemized lists)

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の

particle

1. indicates possessive (see also: 乃; occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)

2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives

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の

Most common form: 野

noun

1. plain; field

2. hidden (structural) member (this meaning is restricted to reading の)

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noun

Ming (dynasty of China, 1368-1644)

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noun

1. brightness

2. clarity; acumen

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noun

1. vidya (wisdom) (Buddhist term)

2. mantra (see also: 真言)

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り

Most common form: 灯

noun

1. light; illumination; glow; gleam (this meaning is restricted to form 明かり, 明り)

2. lamp; light (see also: 明かりを消す)

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Most common form: 清

1. clearly; brightly (archaic)

2. cleanly; purely

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り

Most common form: 理

noun

1. reason; principle; logic

2. general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) (see also: 事; Buddhist term)

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り

Most common form: 里

noun

1. Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles

2. neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) (see also: 郷里制, 国郡里制)

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り

Most common form: 利

noun

advantage; benefit; profit; interest

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だ

copula

1. be; is (see also: である, です; plain copula)

auxiliary verb

2. indicates past or completed action (see also: た; た after certain verb forms)

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だった

expression

was (see also: だ; past tense of plain copula)

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た

auxiliary verb

1. indicate past completed or action (see also: だ; だ after certain verb forms)

2. indicates light imperative (see also: だ)

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た

Most common form: 他

adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun, 'no' adjective

other (esp. people and abstract matters)

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た

Most common form: 多

noun, prefix

multi-

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1 word found matching '小さな裸電球が唯一の明りだった。' when conjugated

い

Most common form: ちっこい

very small (slightly pejorative; often written with kana only)

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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, examples), 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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