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This TV set is useless. It’s broken.
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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)
terebi
noun
  1. television; TV
  2. TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
dame
na adjective, noun
  1. no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken
  2. hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless
  3. cannot; must not; not allowed
noun
  1. neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game
da
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)
kowareru

te-form

kowarete
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be broken; to break
  2. to fall through; to come to nothing
Contraction of 「~て·いる」 to 「~て·る」
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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