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Cloudy days, they stopped on their way and could not return home.
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kumoru

Plain Past Indicative Form

kumotta
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to get cloudy; to cloud over; to become overcast
  2. to cloud up; to fog up; to mist up; to become dim
  3. to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression); to be downcast
  4. to look slightly downward (of a noh mask; indicating sadness, grief, etc.) (from 面曇る)
hi
noun
  1. day; days
  2. sun; sunshine; sunlight
  3. (the) day; daytime; daylight
  4. date; deadline
  5. (past) days; time (e.g. of one's childhood)
  6. case (esp. unfortunate); event (as 〜した日には, 〜と来た日には, etc.)
karera
pronoun
  1. they; them (usu. in ref. to males or a mixed-sex group)
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
tochuu
noun, adverb
  1. on the way; en route; halfway
  2. in the middle of; midway
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.)
tomaru

te-form

tomatte
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to stop (moving); to come to a stop
  2. to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to cease; to be stopped; to be suspended
  3. to alight; to perch on
Suffix after the te form of a verb
shimau

masu stem

shimai
auxiliary verb, godan verb
  1. to do completely; to finish (after the -te form of a verb)
  2. to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do (after the -te form of a verb)
ie
noun
  1. house; residence; dwelling
  2. family; household
  3. lineage; family name
ni
particle
  1. at (place, time); in; on; during
  2. to (direction, state); toward; into
  3. for (purpose)
  4. because of (reason); for; with
  5. by; from
  6. as (i.e. in the role of)
  7. per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
  8. and; in addition to
  9. if; although
modoru
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to turn back (e.g. half-way)
  2. to return; to go back
  3. to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned
  4. to rebound; to spring back
kotogadekiru

Plain Past Indicative Negative Form

kotogadekinakatta
expression, ichidan verb
  1. to be able (to); to be possible (to) (usu. verb+ことが...)
koto
noun
  1. thing; matter
  2. incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
  3. circumstances; situation; state of affairs
  4. work; business; affair
  5. after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
noun, used as a suffix
  1. nominalizing suffix
  2. pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
noun
  1. alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or (as AことB (A = alias, B = real name))
  2. necessity; need (as 〜ことはない)
  3. you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ... (as 〜ことだ)
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)
dekiru

Plain Past Indicative Negative Form

dekinakatta
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task
  2. to be ready; to be completed
  3. to be made; to be built
  4. to be good at; to be permitted (to do)
  5. to become intimate; to take up (with somebody)
  6. to grow; to be raised
  7. to become pregnant

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