Can you get back up if you fall? I guess if you tumble in one of these, at least you won’t have a skinned knee. 🤣
きょうそう
競争した
They competed
The casual past tense form of the irregular verb する is created by replacing する with した. Another way to think of it is: conjugate from the す in する.
おおぜい
大勢で競争した
There were a great number and they competed
で means ‘and’ when used to connect two separate sentences where the last word of the first sentence is です.
ひと
人たちが大勢で競争した
A great number of people competed
- たち implies there is a group of the word that is right in front of たち.
- The が particle puts emphasis on the subject.
- It answers the question: A huge crowd of what?
き
着た人たちが大勢で競争した
A large number of dressed-up people competed
- The casual past tense form of きる is created by dropping る and adding た.
- Words with い-sound characters before る are often る-verbs aka いちだん verbs—so-called because the る gets dropped to make way for the appropriate ending and no vowel shifts happen.
- I say ‘often’ because there are some verbs that have this combo but are actually う-verbs aka ごだん verbs. There is a pattern for telling which is which but it’s not useful here since 着る is a two-character word.
ぬいぐるみを着た人たちが大勢で競争した
A large number of people wearing stuffed animal suits competed
- The particle を marks the noun that is being acted on by the subject/topic.
- Someone is doing something (the verb) to something (the noun).
きょうりゅう
恐竜のぬいぐるみを着た人たちが大勢で競争した
A large number of people wearing dinosaur suits competed
- The particle の here is used to tell us what kind of stuffed animal suit.
- の goes between two nouns.