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You can't eat chicken? How do you know if you never try it?
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Vocabulary list

chikin
noun
  1. chicken
noun, na adjective
  1. coward; scaredy-cat; chicken; wuss
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
taberu

Potential Plain Present Indicative Negative Form

taberarenai

Passive Plain Present Indicative Negative Form

taberarenai
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to eat
  2. to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
taberareru

Plain Present Indicative Negative Form

taberarenai
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be able to eat
pre-noun adjectival
  1. to be edible; to be good to eat
toiu
expression
  1. called; named; that says; that
  2. as many as; as much as (after a quantity)
  3. all ...; every single ... (as ...という...)
to
particle, conjunction
  1. if; when
  2. and
particle
  1. with
  2. used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
noun
  1. promoted pawn
particle
  1. indicates a question (at sentence end)
iu
godan verb
  1. to say; to utter; to declare
  2. to name; to call
  3. to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
kedo
conjunction, particle
  1. but; however; although
tannaru
pre-noun adjectival
  1. mere; simple; sheer
kuwazugirai
expression
  1. disliking a certain food without having tried it
  2. disliking something without having tried it; being prejudiced against; having an instinctive aversion to
janai
expression, i adjective (negative)
  1. is not; am not; are not (from ではない)
  2. isn't it?
ja
conjunction
  1. then; well; so; well then (from では)
copula
  1. be; is
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)
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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