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Federal budget cuts will take a bite out of Social Security benefits.
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Vocabulary list

renpouseifu
noun, no adjective
  1. federal government (e.g. USA, Australia, Mexico, Germany, Canada)
renpou
noun, no adjective
  1. commonwealth; federation of states; confederation; union
seifu
noun
  1. government; administration
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
yosansakugen
noun
  1. budget cut
yosan
noun, suru verb, no adjective
  1. estimate; budget
sakugen
noun, suru verb
  1. cut; reduction; curtailment
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
shakaihoshou
noun, no adjective
  1. social security
shakai
noun
  1. society; public; community; the world
  2. social studies
hoshou
noun, suru verb
  1. guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
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
kyuufu
noun, suru verb
  1. payment; provision; benefit; present; delivery
  2. performance
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
eikyou
noun
  1. influence; effect
suru verb
  1. to influence; to affect; to have an influence on; to impact; to have an effect on
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)
oyobu
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to reach; to amount to; to befall; to happen to; to extend; to go on (for, until)
  2. to be up to the task; to come up to
  3. to compare with; to be a match (for)
  4. to commit (a crime)
  5. to require (to do) (usu. used in the negative)
da

Polite Presumptive Form

deshou
copula
  1. be; is (plain copula)
auxiliary verb
  1. did; (have) done (た after certain verb forms; indicates past or completed action)
  2. please; do (indicates light imperative)

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