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兵へい士したちは城しろの前まえにたむろしていた。

Span Details

兵へい士し

pluralizing suffix (people, animals)

は

topic marker

grammar

possession, attribution, nominalizer, or nominal linker

in front of; before (a place)

noun, no-adjective, adverb, suffix

direction, time, indirect object, or target marker

gather; hang out; loiter; assemble (troops); be stationed; be quartered

-> たむろするsuru verb

and; and then; then; because; so; since; by; through; with; although; but; yet; connects to auxiliary verbs (e.g., ている, ていく); forms compound verbs (e.g., やって来る); please (do)

particle, conjunction

be; exist; stay; be ...-ing; have ...-ed; be ...-ed

-> いるichidan verb, auxiliary

past tense or completed action