とまる
to stop, to come to a stop
The flat footprint that goes nowhere else, and nobody parked this one. The bus has sat across the road since Tuesday. Tom とま, are you shifting it: とまる.
止める とめる is you stopping the thing. 止まる is it stopping, or sitting there stopped.
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