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Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.
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Vocabulary list

eikoku
noun
  1. United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain
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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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tsuuka
noun
  1. currency
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kiki
noun
  1. crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
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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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seifu
noun
  1. government; administration
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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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pondo
noun
  1. pound (unit of weight) (also written as 听, 封度, 英斤, 英听)
  2. pound (currency); pound sterling (also written as 磅)
  3. pond
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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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kyuuraku
noun, suru verb
  1. sudden fall; sharp fall; sudden drop; sharp drop
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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.
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kuitomeru

Potential Plain Past Indicative Negative Form

kuitomerarenakatta

Passive Plain Past Indicative Negative Form

kuitomerarenakatta
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem; to curb; to halt
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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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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.
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meguru
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to go around
  2. to return
  3. to surround
  4. to concern (usu. of disputes)
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seijikiki
noun
  1. political crisis
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seiji
noun
  1. politics; government
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kiki
noun
  1. crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
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heto
expression, particle
  1. to; towards; for (へ with emphasis on what follows)
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he
particle
  1. to; towards; for (indicates direction or goal; pronounced え in modern Japanese)
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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)
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hatten
noun, suru verb
  1. development; growth; expansion; extension; flourishing
  2. development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; progression; unfolding
  3. playing around; having an active sex life (recently often associated with gay sex)
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suru

Polite Past Indicative Form

shimashita
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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