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The rail-line was carried under the Tsugaru Strait to Hokkaido.
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Vocabulary list

tetsudou
noun
  1. railroad; railway; rail transport
rosen
noun
  1. route (bus, train, air, etc.); line
  2. line (taken by a group, organization, etc.); policy; course
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)
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
shita
noun
  1. below; down; under; younger (e.g. daughter)
  2. bottom
  3. beneath; underneath
  4. just after; right after (as 下から, 下より, etc.)
noun, no adjective
  1. inferiority; one's inferior (i.e. one's junior)
noun
  1. trade-in
noun, used as a prefix
  1. preliminary; preparatory
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.
tooru

te-form

tootte
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
  2. to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to connect
  3. to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
  4. to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
  5. to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
  6. to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
  7. to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
  8. to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
  9. to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
  10. to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
  11. to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
  12. to pass for; to come across as; to seem like
  13. to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
  14. to be well-informed; to be wise
suffix, godan verb
  1. to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly (after the -masu stem of a verb)
hokkaidou
noun
  1. Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
made
particle
  1. until (a time); till; to; up to
  2. to (a place); as far as
  3. to (an extent); up to; so far as; even
  4. only; merely
enchou
noun, suru verb
  1. extension; elongation; prolongation; lengthening
noun
  1. Enchō era (923.4.11-931.4.26)
suru

Passive Plain Past Indicative Form

sareta
suru verb (irregular)
  1. to do; to carry out; to perform
  2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  3. to serve as; to act as; to work as
  4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  5. to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as (as 〜にする,〜とする)
  6. to decide on; to choose (as 〜にする)
suru verb (irregular), intransitive verb
  1. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) (as 〜がする)
  2. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  3. to be worth; to cost
  4. to pass (of time); to elapse
suru verb (irregular), transitive verb
  1. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B (as AをBにする)
  2. to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B (as AをBにする)
  3. to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B (as AをBにする)
  4. to feel A about B (as AをBにする)
suffix, suru verb (irregular)
  1. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
auxiliary verb, suru verb (irregular)
  1. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  2. to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to (as 〜うとする,〜ようとする)

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