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The minimum wage has hardly budged as of late.
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Vocabulary list

saiteichingin
noun
  1. minimum wage
saitei
no adjective, na adjective, noun
  1. least; lowest; minimum
no adjective, na adjective
  1. worst
  2. awful; horrible; nasty; disgusting
adverb
  1. at the very least
chingin
noun
  1. wages; pay
  2. rental payment
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
konotokoro
expression, no adjective, adverb
  1. lately; recently
kono
pre-noun adjectival
  1. this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)
  2. last (couple of years, etc.); these; past; this (in ref. to a stretch of time or date)
  3. you (as in "you liar") (emphatic, accusatory, insulting)
tokoro
noun, adverb, suffix
  1. place; spot; scene; site (also pronounced どころ when a suffix)
noun, suffix
  1. address
  2. district; area; locality
  3. one's house
  4. point; aspect; side; facet
  5. passage (in text); part
  6. space; room
  7. thing; matter
noun
  1. whereupon; as a result (after the plain past form of a verb)
  2. about to; on the verge of (after present form of a verb)
  3. was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing (after past form of a verb)
hotondo
noun, adverb
  1. mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but; just about; almost
kawatteiru

Polite Present Indicative Negative Form

kawatteimasen
expression, ichidan verb
  1. to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different (sometimes derogatory)
kawaru

te-form

kawatte
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to change; to be transformed; to be altered; to vary
  2. to move to
  3. to be different; to be uncommon; to be unusual (usu. as 変わった, 変わっている)
Suffix after the te form of a verb
iru

Polite Present Indicative Negative Form

imasen
ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
  1. to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing (after the -te form of a verb; indicates continuing action or state)

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