How to say four boys amused themselves playing cards. in Japanese
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４４(４) (num) four人人(nin) (suf) -ian/-er/man/person/peopleのの(no) (prt) indicates possessive/nominalizes verbs and adjectives/substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases/indicates a confident conclusion/ indicates emotional emphasis/indicates question少年少年(shounen) (n) boy/juvenile/young boy/youth/ladたちたち(tachi) (n) mansion/small castle/nobleman/noblewomanはは(ha) (int) indicating a subject/yes/indeed/well/ha!/what?/huh?/sighトランプトランプ(toranpu) (n) playing cardsをを(wo) (prt) indicates direct object of action/indicates subject of causative expression/indicates an area traversed/indicates time over which action takes place/indicates point of departure or separation of action/indicates object of desire, like, hate,してして(shite) (prt) by/as/indicates patient of a causative expression/acts as a connective/adds emphasis/and then楽し楽し(tanoshi) (adj) fun/excitingんだんだ(nda) (exp) the expectation is that .../the reason is that .../the fact is that .../it is that ...。。(。) Japanese period "."
