It is not known when the Hinamatsuri first started, but the Nagashibina, in its most primitive form, was already being celebrated during the Heian period.
These two have completely different patterning but no difference is seen in their internal morphology so it seems that they are considered the same.
この２つは模様が全然違うのだが、内部形態に差が見られず同一とみなされているようです。
Friendship in itself is something very vague and even in cases of same-sex friendships, it takes many shapes and is brought on by many different motives.
With horse racing and such, these are called "stakes". For this meaning the plural form is often used.
競馬などで、ｓｔａｋｅｓと言う。この意味では複数形で使われることが多い。
I got her a doll.
彼女に人形を買ってあげた。
A stop sign in Japan has 3 sides, whereas a stop sign in the U.S. has 8 sides.
止まれの標識は日本では３角形だが、アメリカでは８角形だ。
The girl was gazing at the doll.
その少女は人形をじっと見ていた。
He expressed it in the form of fiction.
彼はそれを小説の形式で表した。
Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.
The example is a past progressive tense sentence. How was everybody taught when they were learning about progressive tense?
例文は過去進行形の文です。皆さんは進行形を学習するとき、どのように教わりましたか？
When inserting the budwood into the root stock make the cambium layer overlap.
穂木を台木に差し込む際、形成層を重ね合わせるようにします。
In the future we may need to take another look at the way decisions such as this are actually implemented.
将来、このような決定がどういう形で実行されるかを見直すことが必要になるかもしれない。
The chances are two to one against us.
形勢は２対１で不利、勝ち目は半分。
Representative democracy is one form of government.
代議民主制は１つの政治形態である。
The earth is similar to an orange in shape.
地球は形がオレンジに似ている。
He drew two squares on the blackboard.
彼は黒板に正方形を二つ書いた。
The Kawagoe festival float has the shape of what's called a hoko float. It has three, or four, wheels attached.
川越の山車は、いわゆる鉾山車と呼ばれる形で、車輪が3つ、もしくは4つ付いています。
When I got back, my bag had disappeared without a trace.
戻ってみると私のバッグは影も形もなかった。
Man learned to adjust to, and in some ways to shape, his environment.
人間は環境に適応し、ある点では環境を形成することが出来るようになった。
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
She looked at several dolls and decided on the most beautiful one.
彼女は人形をいくつか見て、最も美しいものに決めた。
In general, little girls are fond of dolls.
一般的に小さい女の子は人形が好きだ。
She must be kind-hearted to send you such a pretty doll.
こんなにかわいい人形をあなたに送ってくれるとは、彼女は心が優しいに違いない。
The Japanese pride themselves on Mt. Fuji, a cone-shaped mountain.
日本人は円錐形の山、富士山を誇りにしている。
We must draw attention to the distribution of this form in those dialects.
それらの方言におけるこの語形の分布に注意が向けられなければならない。
Puppets work with wires.
操り人形はワイヤーで動く。
Tom drew two squares on the blackboard.
トムは黒板に正方形を2つ描いた。
He expressed his feelings in the form of a painting.
彼は自分の気持ちを絵という形で表現した。
The earth is the shape of an orange.
地球はオレンジの形をしています。
The baby is not bigger than this doll.
赤ちゃんはこの人形よりも大きくない。
That's a doll.
それは人形です。
He gave me this doll in token of his gratitude.
彼は感謝のしるしに私にこの人形をくれた。
The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.
