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Why are you wearing a raincoat? It's not raining, is it?
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Vocabulary list

nande
adverb
  1. why?; what for?
  2. how?; by what means?
kiru

te-form

kite
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on
  2. to bear (guilt, etc.)
n
noun, used as a prefix
  1. some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)
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
ame
noun
  1. rain
  2. rainy day; rainy weather
  3. the November suit (in hanafuda)
furu

te-form

futte
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down
  2. to form (of frost)
  3. to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in
  4. to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.); to come; to arrive
Contraction of 「~て·いない」 to 「~て·ない」
iru

Plain Present Indicative Negative Form

inai
ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
  1. to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing (after the -te form of a verb; indicates continuing action or state)
jan
particle
  1. isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on (used to state something assertively; orig. from じゃないか)

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