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A ship sank near here yesterday.
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Vocabulary list

kinou
noun, adverb
  1. yesterday
konoatari
pronoun
  1. this area; around here
kono
pre-noun adjectival
  1. this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)
  2. last (couple of years, etc.); these; past; this (in ref. to a stretch of time or date)
  3. you (as in "you liar") (emphatic, accusatory, insulting)
atari
noun, noun, used as a suffix, adverb
  1. (in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearby; surroundings
noun, used as a suffix, noun, adverb
  1. around; about; or thereabouts
  2. for instance; say; such as
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.)
fune
noun
  1. ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; seaplane (舟 is often small and hand-propelled)
  2. tank; tub; vat; trough
noun, used as a suffix, counter
  1. counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
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)
shizumu

Plain Past Indicative Form

shizunda
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to sink; to go under; to submerge
  2. to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend
  3. to feel depressed; to become subdued; to become somber

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