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The road across the mountain was narrow, and what's more, it was a steep slope.
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Vocabulary list

yamagoe
noun, suru verb
  1. crossing a mountain
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
michi
noun
  1. road; path; street; lane; passage
  2. route; way
  3. distance; journey
  4. road (e.g. to victory); course
  5. way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
  6. teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
  7. field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
  8. means; way; method
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
semai

Adverbial Form

semaku
i adjective
  1. narrow; confined; small; cramped
  2. limited; narrow-minded; confining
shikamo
conjunction
  1. moreover; furthermore
  2. nevertheless; and yet
kyuukoubai
noun
  1. steep slope
kyuu
na adjective
  1. sudden; abrupt; unexpected
  2. urgent; pressing
  3. steep; sharp; precipitous
  4. rapid; swift; fast
noun
  1. emergency; crisis; danger
  2. urgency; hurrying; haste
  3. (in gagaku or noh) end of a song
koubai
noun
  1. slope; incline; gradient; grade; pitch
  2. slope (of a linear function)
  3. gradient (vector calculus)
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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