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The area around the melting ice cream was crawling with ants.
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suteru

Potential Plain Past Indicative Form

suterareta

Passive Plain Past Indicative Form

suterareta
ichidan verb, transitive verb
  1. to throw away; to cast away; to dump; to discard
  2. to abandon; to desert; to leave
  3. to give up; to resign
aisu
noun
  1. ice
  2. ice cream; icecream
  3. usurer; usury; loansharking (Edo period pun on 高利貸し being homophonous to 氷菓子)
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
mawari
mawari
noun
  1. rotation
  2. making the rounds
  3. spreading
  4. effect; efficacy
noun, used as a suffix, noun
  1. by way of; via
suffix, counter
  1. round; turn
  2. size
  3. 12-year period; 12-year age difference
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
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)
uyouyo
adverb, suru verb
  1. in swarms; crawling with
takaru

te-form

takatte
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to gather; to crowd round; to swarm; to flock
  2. to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to pester (someone for something); to bum; to cadge
  3. to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
Suffix after the te form of a verb
iru

Plain Past Indicative Form

ita
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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