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Linda is sixteen, but had no trouble passing for twenty.
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Vocabulary list

ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
juurokusai
  1. sixteen years old; 16 years old
juuroku
numeric
  1. 16; sixteen
sai
suffix, counter
  1. -years-old
da
copula
  1. be; is (plain copula)
auxiliary verb
  1. did; (have) done (た after certain verb forms; indicates past or completed action)
  2. please; do (indicates light imperative)
ga
particle
  1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
  2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
conjunction
  1. but; however; still; and
  2. regardless of; whether (or not) (after the volitional form of a verb)
nannaku
adverb
  1. easily
hatachi
noun
  1. 20 years old
  2. twenty
nijuu
numeric
  1. twenty; 20
sai
suffix, counter
  1. -years-old
de
particle
  1. at; in (indicates location of action; にて is the formal literary form)
  2. at; when (indicates time of action)
  3. by; with (indicates means of action)
conjunction
  1. and then; so
auxiliary
  1. and; then (indicates continuing action; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types)
particle
  1. let me tell you; don't you know (at sentence-end; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.)
tooru

Plain Past Indicative Form

tootta
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
  2. to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to connect
  3. to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
  4. to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
  5. to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
  6. to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
  7. to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
  8. to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
  9. to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
  10. to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
  11. to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
  12. to pass for; to come across as; to seem like
  13. to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
  14. to be well-informed; to be wise
suffix, godan verb
  1. to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly (after the -masu stem of a verb)

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