Definition of なかりけり
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(n) inside; in
いとこたちは2、3日中にくるでしょう。
My cousins are coming in a few days. -
among; within
うわさの正体をつきとめるために、会社中を調べ回っているんだ。
I've been nosing around the office trying to find out the news. -
center (centre); middle
その学校は、中・高一貫校だということを頭の片隅にでも入れておいて下さい。
Bear in mind that that school is an integrated junior high and high school. - during; while
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(n) relation; relationship
私は彼とは訪問し合う仲だ。
I am on visiting terms with him.
- (n) advantage; benefit; profit; interest
- (n) an official
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(n) ri (old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles)
100里を行く者は99里を半ばとする。
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. - neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes)
- unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
- (n) kick
- (n) gray-headed lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus); grey-headed lapwing
- (aux-v) indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
- indicates continuation from the past to the present
- end; conclusion
- (n) li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
