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The shirt needs ironing
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Vocabulary list

ano
pre-noun adjectival
  1. that; those; the (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)
shatsu
noun
  1. shirt (undergarment); undershirt; singlet (also written as 襯衣)
  2. shirt (outerwear; usu. with collar and buttons)
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
airongake
noun, suru verb
  1. (doing the) ironing
airon
noun
  1. iron (for pressing clothes)
  2. hair iron; hair tong; curling tong
gake
suffix, no adjective
  1. -clad (after an article of clothing)
  2. in the midst of (after a -masu stem)
  3. tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price) (after a number in the ichi, ni counting system)
  4. times (i.e. multiplied by) (after a number in the hitotsu, futatsu counting system)
  5. able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.) (after a number of people)
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)
hitsuyou
na adjective
  1. necessary; needed; essential; indispensable (必用 can imply has to be used rather than is just needed)
noun
  1. necessity; need; requirement
da

Polite Present Indicative Form

desu
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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