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The trouble is that there is little water left.
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Vocabulary list

komattakotoni
expression
  1. the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly
komattakoto
expression, noun
  1. trouble; problem; mess; difficulty; nuisance
komaru

Plain Past Indicative Form

komatta
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be in a fix; to be at a loss; to be stumped; to be embarrassed
  2. to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be annoyed
  3. to be badly off; to be hard up; to be in straitened circumstances
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)
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
mizu
noun
  1. water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water) (み is generally used in compounds)
  2. fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid
  3. flood; floodwaters
  4. water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
  5. break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout
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)
sokowotsuku

masu stem

sokowotsuki
expression, godan verb
  1. to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted
  2. to hit the bottom; to bottom out
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
tsuku

masu stem

tsuki
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to prick; to stab
  2. to poke; to prod; to push; to thrust; to nudge; to hit; to strike
  3. to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with; to press against (the floor, etc.)
  4. to attack
  5. to brave (the rain, etc.)
Suffix after the masu stem of a verb
kakeru

te-form

kakete
suffix, ichidan verb
  1. to be partway doing ...; to begin (but not complete) ...; to be about to ... (after -masu stem of verb)
  2. to address (someone); to direct (something, to someone); to do (something, to someone) (after -masu stem of verb; indicates an action is being directed to someone)
Suffix after the te form of a verb
iru
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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