How to say before the firemen were able to arrive, both buildings burned down. in Japanese
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消防士消防士(shouboushi) (n) fireman/firefighterがが(ga) (prt) indicates sentence subject/indicates possessive/but/however/still/and到着到着(touchaku) (n,vs,adj-no) arrivalするする(suru) (vs-i) to do/to cause to become/to make/to turn/to serve as/to act as/to work as/to wear/to judge as being/to view as being/to think of as/to treat as/to use as/to decide on/to choose/ to be sensed/to be/to be worth/to cost/to pas前前(mae) (n,adj-no,n-suf,pref) previous/prior/former/some time ago/preceding/point/tip/end/nozzle/head/front/ahead/the other side/the future/hereafter/destination/the other partyにに(ni) (prt) indicates such things as location of person or thing, location of short-term action, etc.家家(ie) (n) house/residence/dwelling/family/household/lineage/family nameはは(ha) (int) indicating a subject/yes/indeed/well/ha!/what?/huh?/sigh両方両方(ryouhou) (n,adj-no) both/both sides/both partiesともとも(tomo) (prt) certainly/of course/to be sure/surely/even if/no matter/though/although/without even/without so much as/at the/emphatic particle全焼全焼(zenshou) (n,vs) burned down/entirely destroyedしたした(shita) (n) did/a past form of the previous verb/tongue/tongue-like object/clapper/talon。。(。) Japanese period "."
