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The plate slipped from my hands and fell to the floor.
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tegasuberu

te-form

tegasubette
expression, godan verb
  1. to have one's hands slip (and drop something)
te
noun
  1. hand; arm (occ. pronounced た when a prefix)
  2. forepaw; foreleg
  3. handle
  4. hand; worker; help
  5. trouble; care; effort
  6. means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
  7. hand; handwriting
  8. kind; type; sort
  9. one's hands; one's possession
  10. ability to cope
  11. hand (of cards)
  12. direction
noun, noun, used as a suffix, counter
  1. move (in go, shogi, etc.)
ga
particle
  1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
  2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
conjunction
  1. but; however; still; and
  2. regardless of; whether (or not) (after the volitional form of a verb)
suberu

te-form

subette
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to slip
  2. to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke)
  3. to drop; to go down; to come down; to fall (e.g. in status)
sara
noun
  1. plate; dish; platter; disc
noun, noun, used as a suffix, counter
  1. serving; helping; course
noun
  1. kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
yuka
noun
  1. floor
  2. stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player)
  3. dining platform built across a river
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
otosu
otosu

te-form

otoshite
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
  2. to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
  3. to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
  4. to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
  5. to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
  6. to download; to copy from a computer to another medium
  7. to make someone swoon (judo)
  8. to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
  9. to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)
Suffix after the te form of a verb
shimau

Plain Past Indicative Form

shimatta
auxiliary verb, godan verb
  1. to do completely; to finish (after the -te form of a verb)
  2. to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do (after the -te form of a verb)

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