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- "きょうとにすんでいます。"
"きょうとにすんでいます。"
Translation:I live in Kyoto.
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京都に住んでいます。
京都 (きょうと) = Kyoto, a city/prefecture in Japan
に = particle used for (among other things) marking the target location of the verb
住んでいます (すんでいます) = the polite present progressive tense for the verb 住む "to live/reside"
て-form + いる = present progressive tense; to make -む verbs into their て-form, change -む into -んで (for example: 住む 》 住んで, 飲む 》飲んで, 噛む 》 噛んで)
I might not be precise here, but ~ています adds a continuous aspect to a verb. すんでいます originates from verb すむ which means "to live". すんで is すむ transformed to a so-called "te-form" which is useful in many parts of Japanese grammar. There are some simple rules on how to transform any verb to the "te-form".
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Mr. 8823 - I wrote the kanji in as well but it was marked wrong. Looks like they wanted it in hiragana. oh well.