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Famine caused great distress among the people.
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Vocabulary list

kikin
noun
  1. famine; crop failure
  2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
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)
hitobito
noun
  1. people; men and women
  2. each person; everybody
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
hidoi
i adjective
  1. cruel; heartless; hard; harsh; severe
  2. violent; intense; strong; heavy; extreme
  3. very bad; terrible; awful
  4. excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; outrageous; unfair; unjust
kyuubou
noun, suru verb
  1. poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
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.
motarasu

Plain Past Indicative Form

motarashita
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to bring; to take; to bring about

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