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gaikoku

外がい国こくgaikoku
foreign country
From Lesson 296:Vocabulary expansion 36·Japanese

Breakdown of gaikoku

country
国

Enclose a ball and call it a country. Who decides what a country is anyway?

outside
外

Don't go outside in the evening, it's teeming with fortune-tellers.

Usages of gaikoku

彼かれ は 外がい国こく で 生うまれました。kare ha gaikoku de umaremasita.
He was born in a foreign country.
外がい国こく の 文ぶん化か を 学まなびたい。gaikoku no bunka wo manabitai.
I want to learn about foreign culture.
外がい国こく人じんgaikokuzin
foreigner
外がい国こく語ごgaikokugo
foreign language

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