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  2. Japanese particles - Wikipedia

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    Japanese does not have equivalents of prepositions like "on" or "about", and often uses particles along with verbs and nouns to modify another word where English might use prepositions. For example, ue is a noun meaning "top/up"; and ni tsuite is a fixed verbal expression meaning "concerning":

  3. Kite - Wikipedia

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    Kite flying in Hyderabad starts a month before this, but kite flying/fighting is an important part of other celebrations, including Republic Day, Independence Day, Raksha Bandhan, Viswakarma Puja day in late September and Janmashtami.

  4. Kiteboarding - Wikipedia

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    Mobe: this term has two meanings: either a class of wakestyle tricks involving an invert with a 360-degree spin or a specific trick involving a back roll with a frontside 360 handlepass (while keeping the kite below 45 degrees). The former meaning stems from the latter, which was the first type of mobe to ever be landed.

  5. Kite types - Wikipedia

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    in plasma or photonic media; [344] Solar-kite engineers and scientists are expanding the definition of a kite. [345] The sail may be full of solar-energy electricity-generating material. Another example is the Solar Max Delta Kite. Soil kites Sound-making kites Square kites [346] Stacked kites Stacking sub-kite units Stunt kites Styrofoam kites

  6. Japanese conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known as conjugation. In Japanese , the beginning of a word (the stem ) is preserved during conjugation, while the ending of the word is altered in some way to change the meaning (this is the ...

  7. Japanese irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    Japanese verb conjugation is very regular, as is usual for an agglutinative language, but there are a number of exceptions. The best-known irregular verbs (不規則動詞 [citation needed], fukisoku dōshi) are the common verbs する suru "do" and 来る kuru "come", sometimes categorized as the two Group 3 verbs. As these are the only verbs ...

  8. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  9. Langkat Malay - Wikipedia

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    Verbs in Langkat Malay can be classified into two types: verbs that can be followed by a noun phrase (transitive verbs) and verbs that cannot be followed by a noun phrase (intransitive verbs). [52] Examples of transitive verbs are shown below: mbeli seleper 'buying sandals' ngelutar mangga 'throwing a mango' nonggak unggas 'catching birds'