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猿も木から落ちる
【 さるもきからおちる 】
1. [exp,v1] [proverb]
▶ even monkeys fall from trees
▶ anyone can make a mistake
▶ pride comes before a fall
▶ even Homer sometimes nods

Conjugations


History:
6. A 2022-08-01 04:02:33  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
Add POS to proverbs
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff: 
@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<pos>&v1;</pos>
5. A 2022-07-17 01:59:35  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
Hmmm. I guess so.
4. A* 2022-07-16 17:19:37  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 猿も木から落ちる　 │ 7,332 │ 97.7% │
│ 猿も木から落ちます │    27 │  0.4% │
│ 猿も木から落ちた　 │   112 │  1.5% │
│ 猿も木から落ちて　 │    33 │  0.4% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Comments: 
I think we should keep the [v1] tag since programs use this grammar information to de-inflect expressions.
3. A 2017-03-06 16:38:09  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2017-03-06 14:33:08  Robin Scott
  Comments: 
I don't think verb category tags apply to proverbs.
  Diff: 
@@ -12 +12 @@
-<pos>&v1;</pos>
+<misc>&proverb;</misc>
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