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Even though the light was red, that car just drove right through.
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Vocabulary list

shingou
noun, suru verb
  1. signal; signalling; signaling
noun
  1. traffic light; traffic signal
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
aka
noun
  1. red; crimson; scarlet
  2. red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange)
  3. Red (i.e. communist) (often written as アカ)
  4. red light (traffic)
  5. red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
no adjective
  1. complete; total; perfect; obvious
noun
  1. copper
  2. red 5-point card
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)
noni
particle
  1. although; despite; even though; and yet
  2. whereas; while
  3. if only; I wish
  4. in order to
ano
pre-noun adjectival
  1. that; those; the (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)
kuruma
noun
  1. car; automobile; vehicle
  2. wheel
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)
tsukkomu

te-form

tsukkonde
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to stuff; to shove
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to plunge into; to charge into; to rush into; to ram into; to crash into
  2. to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to get to the heart (of something)
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to press (someone) about; to point out (e.g. an inconsistency); to question sharply; to grill
  2. to get involved with; to meddle in; to poke one's nose into
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to riposte; to retort; to quip
Suffix after the te form of a verb
kuru

Plain Past Indicative Form

kita
kuru verb, intransitive verb, auxiliary verb
  1. to come back; to do ... and come back (after the -te form of a verb)
  2. to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue (after the -te form of a verb)
ndesu
expression
  1. the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ... (の and ん add emphasis)
n
auxiliary verb
  1. probably (after a -nai stem)
  2. will; intend to
  3. would like to have done (for me)
da

Polite Present Indicative Form

desu
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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