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The landlord told me a cock and bull story about why we didn't have heat for three days.
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Vocabulary list

yanushi
noun
  1. landlord; landlady
  2. house owner; home owner; head of the household
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
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)
mikkakan
noun
  1. three days
san
numeric
  1. three (参 is used in legal documents)
prefix
  1. tri-
hiai
noun
  1. number of days; period of days
  2. daily interest rate
danbou
noun, suru verb
  1. (indoor) heating
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)
kiku
kiku

Plain Past Indicative Negative Form

kikanakatta
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to hear
  2. to listen (e.g. to music) (esp. 聴く)
  3. to ask; to enquire; to query (聴く is used in legal and official contexts)
  4. to hear about; to hear of; to learn of
  5. to follow (advice, order, etc.); to obey; to listen to; to comply with
  6. to hear (e.g. a plea); to grant (a request); to accept (e.g. an argument); to give consideration to
  7. to smell (esp. incense); to sample (a fragrance)
  8. to taste (alcohol); to try (also 利く)
riyuu
noun
  1. reason; pretext; motive
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
arekore
adverb, pronoun
  1. this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that
adverb
  1. around; about; round about; roughly; nearly; almost
narabetateru

Plain Past Indicative Form

narabetateta
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to place in a row; to line up
  2. to list; to enumerate
  3. to talk a lot of nonsense; to tell a lot of lies
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)
douse
adverb
  1. anyhow; in any case; at any rate; after all; at all; no matter what
  2. at best; at most
miesuku

Plain Past Indicative Form

miesuita
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be transparent; to be easily seen through; to be obvious; to be apparent
uso
noun, no adjective
  1. lie; fib; falsehood; untruth
  2. mistake; error
noun
  1. unwise move; bad decision
interjection
  1. no way!; unbelievable!; really?!
uso
noun
  1. Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula); Japanese bullfinch
da

Plain Past Indicative Form

datta
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)

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