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Your letter reached me only today, having been delayed by the heavy snow.
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Vocabulary list

o
prefix
  1. honorific/polite/humble prefix (usu. before a term with a kun-yomi reading; おん is more formal)
tegami
noun
  1. letter; missive; note; mail
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
ooyuki
noun
  1. heavy snow
  2. "major snow" solar term (approx. Dec. 7)
de
particle
  1. at; in (indicates location of action; にて is the formal literary form)
  2. at; when (indicates time of action)
  3. by; with (indicates means of action)
conjunction
  1. and then; so
auxiliary
  1. and; then (indicates continuing action; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types)
particle
  1. let me tell you; don't you know (at sentence-end; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.)
okureru

masu stem

okure
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind schedule; to be overdue (usu. 遅れる)
  2. to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be behind (the times) (oft. 後れる)
  3. to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death (oft. 後れる)
  4. to be slow (of a clock or watch)
yatto
adverb
  1. at last; finally
  2. barely; narrowly; just; by the skin of one's teeth
kyou
noun, adverb
  1. today; this day
  2. these days; recently; nowadays
tsuku

Polite Past Indicative Form

tsukimashita
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to arrive at; to reach
  2. to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)

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