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The police threw many tear-gas grenades at the protesters.
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Vocabulary list

keikantai
noun
  1. (squad of) police; police force
keikan
noun
  1. police officer; policeman; constable
tai
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. party; group; crew; team; body
  2. company (of troops); corps; unit; squad
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)
demotai
noun
  1. demonstrators
demo
noun
  1. demonstration; protest
  2. (giving a) demo; demonstration; presentation
tai
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. party; group; crew; team; body
  2. company (of troops); corps; unit; squad
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
tasuu
noun, no adjective
  1. large number (of); many
noun
  1. majority
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
sairuidan
noun
  1. tear-gas bomb
sairui
no adjective, noun
  1. lacrimator; dacryagogue; tear-inducing agent
dan
counter
  1. counter for parts, stages, installments, etc. (of a story, series, project, campaign, etc.) (esp. as 第〜弾, e.g. 第2弾)
  2. counter for bullets
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.
nageru

Plain Past Indicative Form

nageta
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to throw; to hurl; to fling; to toss; to cast
  2. to give up; to abandon; to throw away
  3. to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)

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