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Automobile sales suffered a setback at the end of the financial year.
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Vocabulary list

jidousha
noun
  1. car; automobile; motorcar; motor vehicle; auto
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
ureyuki
noun
  1. sales; demand
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
nendomatsu
noun
  1. end of the fiscal year; end of the school year
nendo
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan); financial year
  2. academic year; school year
  3. product year
sueni
adverb
  1. finally; after; following (used after long, hard work)
  2. at the end (of) (with noun, e.g. 来週の末に)
sue
noun
  1. end; tip; top
  2. end (of the year, month, etc.); close
noun, no adjective
  1. youngest child
noun
  1. descendants; offspring; posterity (usu. 〜の末)
  2. future
adverb, noun
  1. (finally) after; (at last) after; at the end of (as 〜の末 or 〜した末)
noun, no adjective
  1. trifles; trivialities
noun
  1. degenerate age
matsu
noun, used as a suffix, noun
  1. the end (of)
noun, used as a suffix
  1. powder
ni
particle
  1. at (place, time); in; on; during
  2. to (direction, state); toward; into
  3. for (purpose)
  4. because of (reason); for; with
  5. by; from
  6. as (i.e. in the role of)
  7. per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
  8. and; in addition to
  9. if; although
koutai
noun, suru verb
  1. retreat; falling back; moving backwards; reversing; retrogression; retraction
  2. recession; waning
noun
  1. backspace (key)
suru

Polite Past Indicative Form

shimashita
suru verb (irregular)
  1. to do; to carry out; to perform
  2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  3. to serve as; to act as; to work as
  4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  5. to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as (as 〜にする,〜とする)
  6. to decide on; to choose (as 〜にする)
suru verb (irregular), intransitive verb
  1. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) (as 〜がする)
  2. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  3. to be worth; to cost
  4. to pass (of time); to elapse
suru verb (irregular), transitive verb
  1. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B (as AをBにする)
  2. to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B (as AをBにする)
  3. to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B (as AをBにする)
  4. to feel A about B (as AをBにする)
suffix, suru verb (irregular)
  1. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
auxiliary verb, suru verb (irregular)
  1. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  2. to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to (as 〜うとする,〜ようとする)

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