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His company was singled out as the most successful small business in the region.
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Vocabulary list

kare
pronoun
  1. he; him
noun
  1. boyfriend
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
kaisha
noun
  1. company; corporation
  2. workplace
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
chiiki
noun
  1. area; region
niokeru
expression
  1. in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to
mottomo
mottomo
adverb
  1. most; extremely
seikou
noun, suru verb
  1. success; hit
suru

Plain Past Indicative Form

shita
suru verb (irregular)
  1. to do; to carry out; to perform
  2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  3. to serve as; to act as; to work as
  4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  5. to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as (as 〜にする,〜とする)
  6. to decide on; to choose (as 〜にする)
suru verb (irregular), intransitive verb
  1. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) (as 〜がする)
  2. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  3. to be worth; to cost
  4. to pass (of time); to elapse
suru verb (irregular), transitive verb
  1. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B (as AをBにする)
  2. to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B (as AをBにする)
  3. to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B (as AをBにする)
  4. to feel A about B (as AをBにする)
suffix, suru verb (irregular)
  1. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
auxiliary verb, suru verb (irregular)
  1. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  2. to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to (as 〜うとする,〜ようとする)
shoukigyou
noun
  1. small business; small company
shou
noun, noun, used as a prefix
  1. smallness; small item
noun
  1. short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days)
noun, noun, used as a prefix
  1. elementary school
noun, used as a prefix
  1. smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior
  2. younger (of two people with the same name); junior
noun
  1. unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m)
kigyou
noun
  1. enterprise; business; company; corporation
toshite
expression
  1. as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
  2. apart from... (used to change the topic)
  3. even (e.g. "not even a single person") (before a negative form)
  4. thinking that...; trying to... (after a volitional form)
tokuni
adverb
  1. particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
erabu

Passive Plain Past Indicative Form

erabareta
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to choose; to select
erabareru

Plain Past Indicative Form

erabareta
ichidan verb
  1. to be elected

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