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Phrase of the Day

May 5

  Kekkon suru mae to
hanashi ga chigau ja nai. 

This is not what I was led to believe 
before we got married.       

Vocabulary / Expressions

kekkon suru
結婚する
to get married
mae
before
hanashi ga chigau
話が違う
It is not our understanding.

Notes

"Ja (じゃ)" is a colloquial form of "dewa (では)". "~ dewa nai (~ではない)" means "is not ~".

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