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John has hardly ever gone to bed before midnight.
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jon
noun
  1. jeon; Korean dish of meat, vegetables, etc. coated in flour and egg and fried
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ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
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yoru
noun, adverb
  1. evening; night
noun
  1. dinner
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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
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juuniji
noun
  1. twelve o'clock; noon; midnight
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juuni
numeric
  1. twelve; 12
noun
  1. queen (playing card)
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ji
suffix
  1. hour; o'clock
suffix, no adjective
  1. (specified) time; when ...; during ...
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yori
particle
  1. than
  2. from; out of; since; at; on
  3. except; but; other than
adverb
  1. more
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maeni
adverb
  1. ahead; before; ago
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Suffix after the masu stem of a verb
mae
suffix
  1. portion; helping (after a noun or the -masu stem of a verb)
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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
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tokonitsuku

Plain Past Indicative Form

tokonitsuita
expression, godan verb
  1. to go to bed; to be sick in bed; to be laid up
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toko
noun
  1. bed; bedding
  2. sickbed
  3. alcove
  4. riverbed
  5. seedbed
  6. straw "core" of a tatami mat
  7. floor
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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
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tsuku

Plain Past Indicative Form

tsuita
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to be hired; to be employed
  2. to ascend (the throne); to accede
  3. to start (on a journey); to commence; to depart
  4. to study (under teacher); to be an apprentice
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koto
noun
  1. thing; matter
  2. incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
  3. circumstances; situation; state of affairs
  4. work; business; affair
  5. after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
noun, used as a suffix
  1. nominalizing suffix
  2. pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
noun
  1. alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or (as AことB (A = alias, B = real name))
  2. necessity; need (as 〜ことはない)
  3. you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ... (as 〜ことだ)
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ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
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hotondonai
expression, i adjective (negative)
  1. hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
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hotondo
noun, adverb
  1. mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but; just about; almost
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nai
i adjective (negative)
  1. nonexistent; not being (there)
  2. unowned; not had; unpossessed
  3. unique
  4. not; impossible; won't happen (as ...ことがない, etc.; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility)
auxiliary adjective
  1. not (after the ren'youkei form of an adjective)
  2. to not be; to have not (after the -te form of a verb)
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