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46 partial word matches found in search '鳥たちが地面をつついている。'
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Most common form: とり
noun
1. bird
2. bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry  (see also: )
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suffix
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)  (often written with kana only)
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auxiliary verb
1. indicate past completed or action  (see also: ; だ after certain verb forms)
2. indicates light imperative  (see also: )
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noun
long sword
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adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun, 'no' adjective
other (esp. people and abstract matters)
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noun, prefix
multi-
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noun
1. departure; setting off; start
2. being used up; being consumed; being burnt out
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noun
blood; consanguinity
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. earth; ground; land; soil
2. place
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particle
1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
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noun
moth
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. earth; ground; land; soil
2. place
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ground; earth's surface
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noun
1. ground; land; earth; soil  (abbreviation)
2. the region in question; the local area
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noun
1. earth; soil; dirt; clay; mud
2. the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land
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Most common form: 地べた
noun
bare earth; ground
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noun
1. face
2. mask; face guard
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noun
1. face; mug  (see also: ; often derog. or vulg.)
2. surface
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noun
1. face
2. surface
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noun (suffix)
looking like a ...; acting as if a ....
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particle
1. indicates direct object of action
2. indicates subject of causative expression
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counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu etc.)  (often written with kana only)
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conjunction
1. indicates two contrasting actions  (see also: 浮きつ沈みつ, 追いつ追われつ; form: ...つ...つ)
particle
2. indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)  (archaic)
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particle
1. while  (see also: つつある; after the -masu stem of a verb)
2. even though; despite  (see also: つつも)
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noun
1. pipe; tube; cylinder
2. gun barrel
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Most common form: 筒井
noun
round well
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1. just (now)
2. quite (near)
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noun
1. pair; couple; set
2. antithesis  (see also: 対句)
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Most common form: ついてる
expression, ichidan verb
1. to be lucky; to be in luck  (see also: 付く; often written with kana only)
2. to be attached; to have; to be included; to come with; to contain; to be in a state  (see also: 付く; often written with kana only)
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expression
about; concerning; as to; regarding  (often written with kana only)
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particle
strengthens a question, assertion, etc.  (see also: かい, ぞい, だい, わい; familiar language)
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noun
1. stomach
2. Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)  (see also: 胃宿, 白虎; astronomy, etc. term)
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noun
well
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noun, noun (suffix)
medicine; the healing art; healing; curing; doctor
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greatness
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counter
1. rank; place (e.g. first place)
2. decimal place
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ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
indicates continuing action or state (e.g. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)  (from ..て or で plus いる; colloquialism)
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auxiliary
indicates continuing action  (see also: ; で after certain verb forms)
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noun
1. hand; arm  (see also: お手; occ. pronounced た when a prefix)
2. forepaw; foreleg  (see also: お手; colloquialism)
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Most common form: って
particle
1. casual quoting particle  (see also: ; abbr. for と, というのは and other similar combinations)
2. indicates supposition; if ... then
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ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be (of animate objects); to exist  (see also: 在る; often written with kana only)
2. to stay  (often written with kana only)
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'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
to need; to want  (often written with kana only)
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'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in  (see also: 入る, 気に入る, 立ち入る; mainly used in fixed expressions and compound verbs)
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Most common form: 煎る
'ru' godan verb, transitive verb
to parch; to fry; to fire; to broil; to roast; to boil down (in oil)
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Most common form: 鋳る
ichidan verb, transitive verb
to cast; to mint; to coin
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Most common form: 射る
ichidan verb, transitive verb
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)
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