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You say po-tah-to I say po-tay-to. Rika is just that sort of girl. There's no way to win a battle of words with her.
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Vocabulary list

aa
interjection
  1. ah!; oh!; alas! (also written as 於乎, 於戯, 嗟乎, 嗟夫, 吁, etc.)
  2. yes; indeed; that is correct
  3. aah; gah; argh (in exasperation)
  4. hey!; yo!
  5. uh huh; yeah yeah; right; gotcha
iu

Provisional Present Indicative Form

ieba
godan verb
  1. to say; to utter; to declare
  2. to name; to call
  3. to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
ko
ko
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. child
  2. young (animal)
  3. young woman; young geisha (also 娘)
  4. offshoot
  5. interest
  6. new shares
noun
  1. player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.)
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. bird egg
noun, used as a suffix
  1. -er (often of young women) (after a noun or -masu stem)
noun
  1. long vowel mark (usually only used in katakana) (known as ちょうおん)
yu
noun
  1. bow (weapon) (ゆ is usu. a prefix)
  2. archery
  3. bow (for a violin, etc.)
yu
noun
  1. hot water
  2. hot bath; hot spring
  3. molten iron
noun
  1. long vowel mark (usually only used in katakana) (known as ちょうおん)
sato
noun
  1. village; hamlet
  2. countryside; country
  3. home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
  4. one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
sonna
pre-noun adjectival
  1. such; that sort of; that kind of; like that (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener)
interjection
  1. no way!; never!
yatsu
yatsu
numeric
  1. eight
noun
  1. eight years of age
  2. two o'clock (old time system)
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)
monku
noun
  1. complaint; grumbling; objection
  2. phrase; words; expression
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
iiau

masu stem

iiai
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to say to each other; to exchange (jokes, comments, etc.)
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to quarrel; to dispute
Suffix after the masu stem of a verb
de
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. amount (comprising something); amount of time or effort required to do something (usu. after the -masu stem of a verb as 〜出がある or 〜出がない, etc.)
katsu

Potential Plain Present Indicative Form

kateru
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to win; to gain victory
wakenai
i adjective (negative)
  1. easy; simple
expression
  1. there's no way that ... (contraction of わけがない)
wake
noun
  1. conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
nai
i adjective (negative)
  1. nonexistent; not being (there)
  2. unowned; not had; unpossessed
  3. unique
  4. not; impossible; won't happen (as ...ことがない, etc.; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility)
auxiliary adjective
  1. not (after the ren'youkei form of an adjective)
  2. to not be; to have not (after the -te form of a verb)

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