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  • Because I'm not half assing this (yet), I did the leg work to put these two examples - the pluralized words with "tachi" and changing a color noun into an adjective with an "i" - together myself without the direct instruction of the game.

    videolamer.com 2009

  • The usual phrase, 立小便 or 立ション, tachi-shouben or tachi-shon refers more usually to standing outside and urinating in public places.

    Does your wife do this too? 2007

  • The two films, "Namakura Katana" (The Fine Sword) and "Urashima Taro," will be shown alongside 94 other old and rediscovered movies at a film festival titled "Hakutsu sareta Eiga tachi (Unearthed Films) -- 2008," scheduled to run at the film center in April.

    Archive 2008-04-01 tenshi_a 2008

  • I've only studied Japanese for a little while now but I gather that the female host is telling the audience ( "mina-san") that she and the women behind her are "sexy teachers" ( "watashi-tachi sexy sensei ga") and that they are glad to meet you.

    Boing Boing: April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Ash Like Snow the brilliant green sora akaku someru kokutan no yami nomikomareta hoshikuzu-tachi hakanaku furitsumoru hai no yuki mitsumeta nageki no mado

    j-gan Diary Entry j-gan 2008

  • The two films, "Namakura Katana" (The Fine Sword) and "Urashima Taro," will be shown alongside 94 other old and rediscovered movies at a film festival titled "Hakutsu sareta Eiga tachi (Unearthed Films) -- 2008," scheduled to run at the film center in April.

    90 year old anime discovered tenshi_a 2008

  • "Ima mochi warattake, sugi no ji dayou, ore-tachi no jidai dakara na .."

    thewhat Diary Entry thewhat 2007

  • Global warming continues, and our ice storm was merely rain, so seuzen and the Zenko-tachi were able to come over.

    telling stories/物を語る asakiyume 2007

  • This is at once disproved by the term for "yeast," namely, kabi-tachi (fermenting).

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • The equipment of a soldier on campaign included a large sword (tachi) and a small sword (katana or sashi-zoe) together with a quiver (yanagui or ebira); but in time of peace these were kept in store, the daily exercises being confined to the use of the spear, the catapult (ishi-yumi) and the bow, and to the practice of horsemanship.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

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