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Zach

ら抜き言葉って知っている?けっこう間違った言葉を使う生徒が多いみたい。

Sentence Analyzer

抜き 言葉 って 知っている けっこう 間違った 言葉 使う 生徒 多い みたい

English Translation

You know about 'ra-skipped words'? It looks like quite a lot of students are using mistaken words.

Furigana

()言葉(ことば)って()っている?けっこう間違(まちが)った言葉(ことば)使(つか)生徒(せいと)(おお)いみたい。

Romanji

Ra nuki kotoba tte shitteiru? kekkō machigatta kotoba o tsukau seito ga ōi mitai.

Words

薄物 (うすもの、ら)
lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk; Latin (language)
抜き (ぬき)
without; not including; dispensed with; (beating) in succession
言葉 (ことば、けとば)
language; dialect; word; words; phrase; term; expression; remark; speech; (manner of) speaking
って (って、て)
casual quoting particle; indicates supposition; if ... then; indicates a rhetorical question; indicates certainty, insistence, etc.
知る (しる)
to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure); to experience; to go through; to learn; to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know; to concern
結構 (けっこう)
splendid; nice; wonderful; delicious; sweet; sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); (by implication) no thank you; well enough; OK; tolerable; reasonably; fairly; tolerably; construction; architecture
間違う (まちがう)
to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken
()
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
使う (つかう)
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume; to use (language); to speak
生徒 (せいと)
pupil
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
多い (おおい)
many; numerous
みたい (みたい)
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling

Kanji

Readings: バツ、 ハツ、 ハイ、 ぬ.く、 -ぬ.く、 ぬ.き、 ぬ.ける、 ぬ.かす、 ぬ.かる
Meanings: slip out, extract, pull out, pilfer, quote, remove, omit
Readings: ゲン、 ゴン、 い.う、 こと
Meanings: say, word
Readings: ヨウ、 は
Meanings: leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
Readings: チ、 し.る、 し.らせる
Meanings: know, wisdom
Readings: カン、 ケン、 あいだ、 ま、 あい
Meanings: interval, space
Readings: イ、 ちが.う、 ちが.い、 ちが.える、 -ちが.える、 たが.う、 たが.える
Meanings: difference, differ
使
Readings: シ、 つか.う、 つか.い、 -つか.い、 -づか.い
Meanings: use, send on a mission, order, messenger, envoy, ambassador, cause
Readings: セイ、 ショウ、 い.きる、 い.かす、 い.ける、 う.まれる、 うま.れる、 う.まれ、 うまれ、 う.む、 お.う、 は.える、 は.やす、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う
Meanings: life, genuine, birth
Readings: ト、 いたずら、 あだ
Meanings: on foot, junior, emptiness, vanity, futility, uselessness, ephemeral thing, gang, set, party, people
Readings: タ、 おお.い、 まさ.に、 まさ.る
Meanings: many, frequent, much