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Two thirds of the employees of this company are engineers.
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Vocabulary list

kono
pre-noun adjectival
  1. this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)
  2. last (couple of years, etc.); these; past; this (in ref. to a stretch of time or date)
  3. you (as in "you liar") (emphatic, accusatory, insulting)
kaisha
noun
  1. company; corporation
  2. workplace
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
zen
prefix
  1. all; whole; entire; complete; total; pan-
noun
  1. complete (set); in total (before a number of volumes)
juugyouin
noun
  1. employee; worker
juugyou
noun, suru verb
  1. employment
in
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. member
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
san
numeric
  1. three (参 is used in legal documents)
prefix
  1. tri-
bunno
expression, suffix
  1. -th (e.g. one fifth) (indicates a fraction, e.g. 5分の1 signifies one fifth)
ni
numeric
  1. two (ふ and ふう used mainly when counting aloud; 弐, 貳 and 貮 are used in legal documents.)
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
gijutsusha
noun
  1. engineer; technical expert; technician; craftsperson
gijutsu
noun
  1. technology; engineering
  2. technique; skill
  3. art; craft
sha
suffix
  1. person; -er
noun
  1. expert; geisha; prostitute
da

Polite Present Indicative Form

desu
copula
  1. be; is (plain copula)
auxiliary verb
  1. did; (have) done (た after certain verb forms; indicates past or completed action)
  2. please; do (indicates light imperative)

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