Let’s learn Japanese with the song 365日の紙飛行機 (paper plane for 365 days) by AKB48.

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Official Music Video

The learning focus on this page is the expressions below.

  • 風の中を力の限りただ進むだけ
  • その距離を競うより
  • どう飛んだかどこを飛んだのか

You can find them in the video. Go to 1:15.

せんせい
せんせい

Let’s have a look at the expressions more carefully. Scroll down please.

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風の中を力の限りただ進むだけ

Meaning: Just move forward in the wind with as much power as you have.
  • 風(かぜ/ka ze)means ‘wind’.
  • の中(の・なか/no na ka)means ‘in’.
  • を (wo) is an object marking particle and does not mean anything.
  • 力(ちから/chi ka ra)means ‘power’.
  • 力の限り(ちから・の・かぎ・り/chi ka ra no ka gi ri)means ‘as much power as you have’.
  • ただ (ta da) means ‘just’ and it is often used with だけ which follows a verb.
  • 進む(すす・む/su su mu)means ‘move forward’.
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その距離を競うより

Meaning: Rather than compete for the distance
  • その (so no) means ‘the’.
  • 距離(きょ・り/kyo ri)means ‘distance’.
  • を (wo) is an object marking particle and does not mean anything.
  • 競う(きそ・う/ki so u)means ‘compete’.
  • より (yo ri) means ‘than’.
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どう飛んだかどこを飛んだのか

Meaning: how they flew, where they flew
  • どう means ‘how’.
  • どう is often used with か or のか which follows a verb.
  • 飛んだ(と・んだ/to n da)means ‘flew’.
  • どこ means ‘where’.
  • を is an object marking particle and does not mean anything.
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