#16: A large number of people wearing dinosaur suits competed

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.