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Sample Sentence with 生涯

生涯 (shōgai: one’s lifetime)      life + horizon

私の生涯で同じ冬男という名前にはたった二回しか会っていません。
Watakushi no shōgai de onaji Fuyuo to iu namae ni wa tatta nikai shika atte imasen.
Fuyuo is an especially rare name, so I’ve met people with the same name of Fuyuo only twice in my lifetime.

(watakushi: I)
同じ (onaji: same)
冬男 (Fuyuo: male given name)     winter + man
名前 (namae: name)     name + before
たった (tatta: only)
二回 (nikai: twice)     2 + counter for number of times
(a(u): to meet)

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