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The monkeys are grooming each other.
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Vocabulary list

saru
noun
  1. monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate
  2. sly person
  3. idiot; hick
  4. sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
  5. clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
  6. bathhouse prostitute
tachi
suffix
  1. pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
tagaini
adverb
  1. mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together
kedukuroi
noun, suru verb
  1. grooming oneself (esp. animals); mutual grooming (e.g. monkeys); social grooming; personal grooming
ke
noun
  1. hair
  2. fur; wool
  3. down; plumage; feathers
tsukurou

masu stem

tsukuroi
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to mend; to patch up; to repair; to fix; to darn
  2. to fix (hair, clothes, appearance etc.); to adjust; to tidy up; to groom
  3. to keep up appearances; to cover up (e.g. a mistake); to gloss over
  4. to treat (illness, injury, etc.)
suru

masu stem

shi
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)
Suffix after the masu stem of a verb
au

te-form

atte
auxiliary verb, godan verb
  1. to do ... to each other; to do ... together (after the -masu stem of a verb)
Suffix after the te form of a verb
iru
ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
  1. to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing (after the -te form of a verb; indicates continuing action or state)

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