What is ~ku ~く in Japanese? The ending of i-adjectives that makes them into adverbs. Examples and grammar.
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Tokyo 24-ku (10)
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Tokyo 24-ku (09)
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Tokyo 24-ku (04)
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Tokyo 24-ku (02)
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Tokyo 24-ku (08)
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Tokyo 24-ku (01)
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Tokyo 24-ku (06)
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Tokyo 24-ku (12)
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Tokyo 24-ku (05)
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コンビニくん。[Mr. Mini Mart]
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A lonely young woman exiting an unhappy marriage bonds with a lovelorn estate agent in Shinji Imaoka’s frosty romantic drama
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A young woman wrestles with a sense of failure and inadequacy after leaving the corporate world in Yuho Ishibashi’s zeitgeisty indie drama.
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