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It was so still that you would have heard a pin drop.
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Vocabulary list

totemo
adverb
  1. very; awfully; exceedingly (とっても is more emphatic)
  2. (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot) (before a negative form)
shizuka
na adjective
  1. quiet; silent
  2. slow; unhurried
  3. calm; peaceful
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.)
pin
noun
  1. pin (e.g. hairpin, bowling pin, golf pin, etc.)
  2. one (on dice, in cards, etc.)
  3. beginning; best
  4. kickback
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)
ochiru

te-form

ochite
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money) (occ. 堕ちる for depravity and 墜ちる for a crash)
  2. to be omitted; to be missing
  3. to decrease; to sink
  4. to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.)
  5. to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind
  6. to become indecent (of a conversation)
  7. to be ruined; to go under
  8. to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list)
  9. to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession
  10. to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick)
  11. to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee
  12. to fall; to be defeated; to surrender
  13. to come to (in the end); to end in
  14. to fall (in love, asleep, etc.)
  15. to swoon (judo)
  16. to consent; to understand
  17. to go down (of a website, server, etc.); to crash
  18. to log out (of an online game, chat room, etc.); to drop out; to leave; to go offline
  19. to die (of animals)
  20. to move to the depths (of fish when it gets cold)
  21. to go down (of a website, server, etc.)
mo
particle
  1. too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence)
  2. both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) (as AもBも)
  3. even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than (used for emphasis or to express absence of doubt regarding a quantity, etc.)
  4. even if; even though; although; in spite of (often as 〜ても, 〜でも, 〜とも, etc.)
adverb
  1. further; more; again; another; the other
kikoeru
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be heard; to be audible
  2. to be said to be; to be reputed
hodo
noun, adverb
  1. extent; degree; measure
noun
  1. limit; bounds
  2. (span of) time
  3. (a) distance
  4. the state of; the status of; the condition of (as 〜のほど)
particle
  1. about; around; approximately; or so
  2. as much as ...; to the extent of ...; like ...
  3. the more ... the more ... (oft. as 〜ば...ほど)
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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