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お坊ぼうさんは経きょう机づくえの前まえに座すわり、お経きょうを読よみ始はじめた。

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お坊ぼうさん

Buddhist priest; monk; someone else's son

経きょう机づくえ

sutra-reading desk

noun

possession, attribution, nominalizer, or nominal linker

in front of; before (a place)

noun, no-adjective, adverb, suffix

direction, time, indirect object, or target marker

座すわり、

sit; sit down; be seated; kneel or sit on the floor

-> 座るgodan verb

お経きょう

Buddhist sutra; scripture

-> 読むgodan verb

start to ...; begin to ...

-> 始めるichidan verb, auxiliary

past tense or completed action