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A Sample Sentence with 作り言

作り言 (tsukurigoto: fabrication, lie, fiction)     to make + words

This sample sentence comes from Jim Breen’s online dictionary:

彼の話は作り言だったとわかった。
Kare no hanashi wa tsukurigoto datta to wakatta.
What he had said proved to be a myth.

A breakdown of the other kanji:

(kare: he)
(hanashi: talk, story, conversation)

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