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The boys were banging about upstairs.
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Vocabulary list

shounen
noun
  1. boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
tachi
suffix
  1. pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
nikai
noun
  1. second floor; upstairs
ni
numeric
  1. two (ふ and ふう used mainly when counting aloud; 弐, 貳 and 貮 are used in legal documents.)
kai
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. storey; story; floor
noun
  1. stairs
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. stage (in chronostratigraphy)
counter
  1. counter for storeys and floors of a building
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.)
dotabata
adverb, adverb taking the to particle, suru verb
  1. noisily (running around); with heavy feet
  2. in a fluster; in a flurry; in a panic
noun
  1. slapstick
abareru

te-form

abarete
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
Suffix after the te form of a verb
iru

Plain Past Indicative Form

ita
ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
  1. to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing (after the -te form of a verb; indicates continuing action or state)

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