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Let’s learn Japanese with our funny and laid-back manga blog (yonkoma manga), “Laundry Jenga”.

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Vocabulary & Grammar

• 洗濯物せんたくもの – laundry
• ジェンガ – Jenga (game of removing and stacking blocks without making the tower fall)
• 乾かわいた – dry, dried
• を – direct object particle
• ベッド – bed
• 〜の上うえに – onto …
• 置おいて – put and … (te-form of 置おく, used to connect actions)
• ドサ – thud (onomatopoeia for something heavy dropping or falling with a dull sound)
• ちょっと – for a moment, a little
• 目めを離はなす – look away, take one’s eyes off
• clause + と – when, if
• よし – (interjection) Alright!, Okay! (used to express determination or readiness)
• 畳たたむ – fold (usually clothes, laundry)
• ぞ – (sentence-ending particle) used as a morale-boosting expression for oneself or others
• 〜の山やま – pile of …
• 頂点ちょうてん – summit, top, apex (highest point)
• に君臨くんりんする – reigns over, dominates, rules (used metaphorically to describe someone being on top)
• ごま – Goma (the dog’s name)
• 私わたし – I, me
• は – topic marker particle
• のように – like, as if (used to make similes)
• 抜ぬき取とる – pull out, take out
• 踏ふん張ばっている – bracing oneself, holding firm
• グラグラ – wobble, unsteady, shaky (onomatopoeia expressing instability)
• そーっ – gently / quietly and slowly (onomatopoeia for moving carefully)

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Comment from the Author

乾燥機かんそうきから出だしたばかりの洗濯物せんたくものは温あたたかくて気持きもちいいようで、どこにいても、忍者にんじゃのように静しずかに素早すばやく洗濯物せんたくものの上うえに移動いどうします。
The laundry just taken out of the dryer must feel warm and cozy, and no matter where he is, he moves onto it quietly and swiftly like a ninja.

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