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Usages of sakka
作家で 画家 です。sakkade gaka desu.
(She) is a novelist and a painter.
山田さん の お祖父さん は 作家 です。yamadasan no ojiisan wa sakka desu.
Yamada's grandfather is a novelist.
彼 は その 時代 の 有名な 作家 でした。kare wa sono jidai no yuumeina sakka deshita.
He was a famous writer of that era.
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