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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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Vocabulary list

gakkou
noun
  1. school
he
particle
  1. to; towards; for (indicates direction or goal; pronounced え in modern Japanese)
iku

Plain Past Indicative Form

itta
godan verb (iku/yuku), intransitive verb
  1. to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to head (towards); to be transported (towards); to reach
  2. to proceed; to take place (い sometimes omitted in auxiliary use)
  3. to pass through; to come and go
  4. to walk
  5. to die; to pass away
  6. to do (in a specific way)
  7. to stream; to flow
godan verb (iku/yuku), auxiliary verb
  1. to continue (after the -te form of a verb)
godan verb (iku/yuku), intransitive verb
  1. to have an orgasm; to come; to cum
  2. to trip; to get high; to have a drug-induced hallucination
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)
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
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)
hito
noun
  1. man; person
  2. human being; mankind; people
  3. human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species
  4. character; personality
  5. man of talent; true man
  6. another person; other people; others
  7. adult
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
kamotsujidousha
noun
  1. truck
kamotsu
noun
  1. cargo; freight
  2. money or assets
jidousha
noun
  1. car; automobile; motorcar; motor vehicle; auto
kara
particle
  1. from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since
  2. from (originator); by
  3. because; since (follows verbs, adjectives)
  4. out of (constituent, part)
  5. through (e.g. window, vestibule)
  6. after; since (following the te-form of a verb)
  7. expresses sympathy or warning
mono
noun
  1. thing; object; article; stuff; substance
  2. one's things; possessions; property; belongings (as 〜のもの, 〜のもん)
  3. things; something; anything; everything; nothing
  4. quality
  5. reason; the way of things
  6. used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen (formal noun often used as 〜ものだ)
noun, used as a suffix
  1. item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...
  2. cause of ...; cause for ...
prefix
  1. somehow; somewhat; for some reason
  2. really; truly
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
nusumu

masu stem

nusumi
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to steal
kaneru

Plain Present Indicative Negative Form

kanenai
suffix, ichidan verb
  1. to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features
  2. to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
  3. to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others)
  4. to think of the future (as well as the present)
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)
daigakukyouiku
noun
  1. university education; college education (training)
daigaku
noun
  1. university; college
  2. former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators)
  3. the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
kyouiku
noun, suru verb
  1. education; schooling; training; instruction; teaching; upbringing
  2. culture; cultivation; education
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
ukeru

Plain Past Indicative Form

uketa
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to receive; to get
  2. to catch (e.g. a ball)
  3. to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
  4. to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to suffer (an injury); to feel (influence)
  5. to undergo (e.g. surgery); to take (a test); to accept (a challenge)
  6. to be given (e.g. life, talent) (esp. 受ける, 享ける)
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to find funny; to find humorous; to be amused (by) (esp. ウケる)
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to follow; to succeed; to be descended from (esp. 受ける, 享ける)
  2. to face (south, etc.)
  3. to be modified by (esp. 受ける, 承ける)
  4. to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee (esp. 請ける, now primarily used in compound words)
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be well-received; to become popular; to go down well (esp. ウケる, うける)
hito
noun
  1. man; person
  2. human being; mankind; people
  3. human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species
  4. character; personality
  5. man of talent; true man
  6. another person; other people; others
  7. adult
nara
auxiliary
  1. if; in case; if it is the case that; if it is true that (hypothetical form of the copula だ, from なり and sometimes classed as a particle)
  2. as for; on the topic of
conjunction
  1. if that's the case; if so; that being the case
  2. if possible; if circumstances allow
tetsudou
noun
  1. railroad; railway; rail transport
zenbu
noun, no adjective, adverb
  1. all; entire; whole; altogether
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
nusumu

masu stem

nusumi
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to steal
kaneru

Plain Present Indicative Negative Form

kanenai
suffix, ichidan verb
  1. to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features
  2. to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
  3. to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others)
  4. to think of the future (as well as the present)

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