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トラックなかった
じだい
時代
ひとびと
人々
さまざま
くふう
工夫
こらして
おお
きな
いし
はこ
んだ

In an age where there were no motor-powered vehicles, people used various devices and methods to transport large stones.
Conjugations and inflections
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Words
2
1. truck
2. track (running, CD, DVD, etc.)
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1
1. nonexistent; not being (there)  (see also: 亡い; often written with kana only)
2. unpossessed; unowned; not had
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0
noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi), noun
1. period; epoch; era; age
2. the times; those days
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2
Most common form: 人人
each person; people; men and women; everybody
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2 3
Most common form: 様々
varied; various
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0
1. scheme; device; scheming; devising; figuring out; coming up with; solving ingeniously
2. dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
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2
Most common form: 凝らす
'su' godan verb, transitive verb
to concentrate; to devote; to apply; to strain; to rack; to elaborate
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1
big; large; great  (see also: 小さな)
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2
noun
1. stone
2. gem; jewel
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0 3
'bu' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to carry; to transport; to move; to convey
2. to come; to go  (see also: 足を運ぶ; usu. as お運びになる, お運び下さる, etc.; honorific)
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Kanji
ジ   とき time, occasion   
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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
ジ   temple   てら Buddhist temple   
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スン   inch
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
タイ   ダイ   かえる to replace, to exchange   かわる to be exchanged   よ the world   しろ substitute   
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shoot
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
(kanji repetition symbol)   
コウ   ク    work; construction; craft   
フ   フウ   おっと husband   
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ニ   ふた    ふた two   
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
セキ   シャク   コク   いし stone   
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whereupon one
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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ウン   carry; luck   はこ to carry   
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グン    army   
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cover; covered   
シャ   くるま car   
move
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