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  2. ほたる

ほたる

firefly

hotaru

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Meanings

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    firefly (Luciola cruciata); lightning bug; glowwormnoun

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In a sentence

ほたるfireflyだね

It's a firefly

How it works

One word doing all the work. 蛍(ほたる) (firefly) is named, then the plain copula だ (is) states it, and the final ね (right?) softens it into a shared observation — “it's a firefly, isn't it?” — instead of a flat fact.

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