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Furigana Show|Add to ▼ Source Totoeba Project
At the ethics committee, a temporary halt to cloning experiments was decided.
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rinriiinkai
noun
  1. ethics committee
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rinri
noun, no adjective
  1. ethics; morals
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iinkai
noun
  1. committee; commission; board; panel; committee meeting
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iin
noun
  1. committee member
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kai
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. meeting; assembly; party; gathering; conference; athletic meet
  2. society; association; club
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de
particle
  1. at; in (indicates location of action; にて is the formal literary form)
  2. at; when (indicates time of action)
  3. by; with (indicates means of action)
conjunction
  1. and then; so
auxiliary
  1. and; then (indicates continuing action; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types)
particle
  1. let me tell you; don't you know (at sentence-end; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.)
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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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kuroon
noun, no adjective
  1. clone
noun
  1. kroon (former currency of Estonia)
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jikken
noun, suru verb
  1. experiment
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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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ichijiteishi
noun, suru verb
  1. suspension; pause; temporary halt; moratorium
noun
  1. stopping (at an intersection, railway crossing, etc.)
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ichiji
noun, adverb
  1. one o'clock
  2. once; at one time; formerly; before
noun, adverb, no adjective
  1. for a time; for a while; for the time being; for the present; for the moment; temporarily (in weather forecasts, indicates that a given condition will hold for less than one-quarter of the forecast period)
noun
  1. a time; one time; once
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teishi
noun, suru verb
  1. stoppage; coming to a stop; halt; standstill
  2. ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); interruption (e.g. of electricity supply); cutting off
  3. suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition; ban
  4. suspension of music, dance, etc. as a sign of mourning for a prominent person
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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)
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kettei
noun, suru verb
  1. decision; determination
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suru

Plain Past Indicative Form

shita
suru verb (irregular)
  1. to do; to carry out; to perform
  2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  3. to serve as; to act as; to work as
  4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  5. to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as (as 〜にする,〜とする)
  6. to decide on; to choose (as 〜にする)
suru verb (irregular), intransitive verb
  1. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) (as 〜がする)
  2. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  3. to be worth; to cost
  4. to pass (of time); to elapse
suru verb (irregular), transitive verb
  1. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B (as AをBにする)
  2. to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B (as AをBにする)
  3. to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B (as AをBにする)
  4. to feel A about B (as AをBにする)
suffix, suru verb (irregular)
  1. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
auxiliary verb, suru verb (irregular)
  1. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  2. to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to (as 〜うとする,〜ようとする)
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