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82

THE POSTPOSITION.

Konnichi made no kan-}

Vo-day till '. ac

jo wo shimasho.

counts (accus.) will-do

I will do the accounts down to to-day ; more lit. the till-to-day's-accounts.

Sore made no koto ni ( I will pay no more at- tm '* thing ) tendon to it, or Don't let |us think about it any more.

itashiniaslio.

it ill-in til:<

Go sliiinpai

xiety

an

oyobimasen.

reaches'iiot

m

to

wa

f It is not worth your ! troubling about. (Ni wa j is more emphatic than ni (alone would be.)

O kuni ni wa,

IMonotn-able country in, Earthquakes

yonodo jtshin ga (

considerably earthquakes (nom.) j

oi yd de gozaimasii. country

seem to be very common in your

plentiful appearance

is

yori mo osoku Ti

than eren, late | It: won * d tO be later

natcha ikemasen. Fthan twelve o'clock.

as-for-becoming docsti't-go }

Ano hlto to iva, goku] TT . J _.

That person with as-forfveryl . He 1S ver y mtllhatC

^ow-i ^ gozaimasfi. fwith that man.

    • J

intimate

Ano lien mo,

Vhat neighbourhood also,

to wa

?ith ax-for,

hirakemashlta.

has-opencd-ont

Isogazn to mo

Mlnrryins-Hot even,

yorosliii (familiar).

(is) good

That neighbourhood is improved compared with what it used to be.

You need not hurry.

Kuni to ka

Come* that ?

iimaslilta.} If I mistake not, he said [said he would come.

137. No followed by other postpositions generally has the substantive force of the English word " one " or " ones," already exemplified on pp. 68 69, thus :