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下等かとう (katou)

inferior; low; lower

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下等 (かとう, katou) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “inferior; low; lower”.

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Example sentences 4

アメーバは下等かとう動物どうぶつです

The amoeba is a lower animal.

私わたし達たちは下等かとう動物どうぶつの生き延いきのび方かたについていろいろと知っている。

We have learned much about survival from lower forms of animal life.

天候てんこうは、世界せかいの至いたる所ところで、植物しょくぶつ界かいと下等かとう動物どうぶつ界かいの間あいだの複雑ふくざつな調和ちょうわ状態じょうたいに影響えいきょうを与あたえている。

To this extent, it has the characteristics of a great complicated balance between plant life and lower forms of animal life.

文学ぶんがく、音楽おんがくあるいは演劇えんげきに対たいする批評ひひょう家かの仕事しごとは、あらゆる仕事しごとのうちで最もっとも下等かとうな仕事しごとである。

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all.

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