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試し験けん前ぜん日じつになって、彼かれは今いままで開ひらかなかった教きょう科か書しょを読よみ始はじめた。溺おぼれる者ものは藁わらをも掴つかむというやつだ。

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試し験けん

examination; exam; test

noun, suru verb

前ぜん日じつ

previous day; day before; eve

に

direction, time, indirect object, or target marker

grammar

become; get; turn; grow

-> なるgodan verb, auxiliary

connective te-form

今いままで

until now; so far; up to now

open; undo; unseal or unpack

-> 開くgodan verb

negative auxiliary

-> ないgrammar

past tense or completed action

教きょう科か書しょ

textbook; coursebook; schoolbook

-> 読むgodan verb

start to ...; begin to ...

-> 始めるichidan verb, auxiliary

past tense or completed action

溺おぼれる

drown; struggle in water; nearly drown

person; someone of a certain type

藁わらをも掴つかむ

grasp at straws; resort to desperate measures

expression, verb

called; that; the fact that