kanozyo ha tukarete bonyarisita mama, eki wo toorisugisou ni natta.

Here, 疲れて links to what follows:

• 疲れて = being tired / tired and...
• ぼんやりしたまま = remaining absent-minded / spaced out

So 疲れて works like and, or being in the state of being tired.

A natural way to understand it is:

• 彼女は疲れて、ぼんやりしたまま…
• She was tired and, still in a dazed state, ...

If you used 疲れた, it would sound more like a completed past statement by itself, and it would not connect as smoothly to the next part.

まま means while remaining in that state or without changing that condition.

So:

• ぼんやりした = became absent-minded / spaced out
• ぼんやりしたまま = while still absent-minded, remaining spaced out

This pattern is very common:

• ドアを開けたまま = leaving the door open
• 座ったまま = remaining seated
• 靴をはいたまま = with one’s shoes still on

In this sentence, ぼんやりしたまま means she stayed in that dazed state while the next thing happened.

Because まま usually follows a plain form, not the -て form.

So you get patterns like:

• Vたまま
• Nのまま
• い-adjectiveいまま
• な-adjective/ noun のまま

Since ぼんやりする is a verb, the form before まま is the plain past:

• ぼんやりしたまま

This expresses a state that has come about and then continues.

Yes.

• dictionary form: ぼんやりする
• past plain form: ぼんやりした

ぼんやりする means things like:

• to be absent-minded
• to be vague
• to be in a daze
• to space out

So ぼんやりしたまま is literally something like having become spaced out and remaining that way.

In natural English, we would usually just say:

• while absent-minded
• still in a daze
• still spaced out

This is built in layers:

1. 通り過ぎる = to pass by / go past
2. 通り過ぎそう = looks like one will pass by / is about to pass by
3. 通り過ぎそうになる = to come close to passing by / to almost pass by
4. 通り過ぎそうになった = came close to passing by / was about to pass by

So this part means she nearly passed the station without stopping.

A useful way to think about Vます-stem + そうになる is:

• to get into a situation where one is about to do V
• to almost do V

Examples:

• 泣きそうになった = I almost cried
• 倒れそうになった = I almost fell over
• 寝そうになった = I almost fell asleep

They are different grammar patterns.

1. 〜そう for appearance / seeming / about to happen

This attaches directly to a verb stem or adjective stem.

Here:

• 通り過ぎる → 通り過ぎそう
• looks like she will pass by
• seems about to pass by

2. 〜そうだ for hearsay

This means I heard that...

For example:

• 彼女は来るそうだ = I heard she is coming

So in your sentence, this is not hearsay. It is the “seems / is about to” type.

Because the pattern is:

• 〜そうになる

The に is part of the grammar used with なる.

Compare:

• 静かになる = become quiet
• 元気になる = become well / energetic
• 泣きそうになる = become about to cry / almost cry

So 通り過ぎそうになった is not something you should split as if に belongs only to 駅 or something else. It belongs to the whole そうになる structure.

Great question. With movement verbs, を can mark the place that someone passes through, moves along, or goes across.

So in this sentence:

• 駅を通り過ぎる = to pass by the station

This is a very common use of を with motion verbs.

Compare:

• 道を歩く = walk along the road
• 橋を渡る = cross the bridge
• 公園を散歩する = take a walk through the park

So 駅を does not mean the station is a direct object in the English sense. It marks the location being passed.

過ぎる by itself often means:

• to pass
• to exceed
• to go beyond

But 通り過ぎる more specifically gives the sense of going past something, often physically.

So:

• 駅を過ぎる can be possible depending on context
• 駅を通り過ぎる very clearly means to go past the station

The 通り adds the sense of passing along/through and makes the image more concrete.

Not necessarily as a strict time sequence.

Japanese often strings states together in a natural way without sharply separating them.

So this part suggests something like:

• she was tired,
• and in that tired, spaced-out state,
• she almost passed the station.

It is more about the overall condition she was in than about a precise timeline.

A natural interpretation is:

• Because she was tired and absent-minded...
• or
• She was tired and still dazed, and...

The comma marks a pause and helps separate the descriptive state from the main event.

So the sentence structure is roughly:

• 彼女は [疲れてぼんやりしたまま]、 [駅を通り過ぎそうになった]。

The first part gives her condition. The second part gives what almost happened.

Japanese commas are often flexible, but here it makes the sentence easier to read.

は marks 彼女 as the topic.

So the sentence is presenting information about her:

• As for her, ...
• She, ...

It does not just mark the subject mechanically; it frames the sentence as talking about her state and what nearly happened to her.

In English we usually just say she, but in Japanese は gives the sentence its topic-comment structure.

Yes, depending on context, that can be a very natural English translation.

Literally, the sentence is more like:

• She, tired and absent-minded, was about to pass the station.

But in natural English, if the context is riding a train, walking, or otherwise needing to stop there, you could translate it as:

• She almost missed the station.

That is not word-for-word, but it captures the actual situation very well.

Often, yes.

In many cases:

• Vそうになった = almost V-ed

Examples:

• 落ちそうになった = I almost fell
• 忘れそうになった = I almost forgot
• 通り過ぎそうになった = I almost passed by

But literally, it is closer to came to the point of doing or was on the verge of doing. So almost is usually the best natural translation, even if the Japanese structure is a little more specific.

By itself, ぼんやり often behaves adverbially, as in:

• ぼんやり見る = look vaguely / stare absent-mindedly

But in this sentence it is part of the verb ぼんやりする:

• ぼんやりしたまま

So here it is not just a free adverb modifying another verb. It is part of the expression meaning to be dazed / absent-minded.

A helpful breakdown is:

• 彼女は — as for her
• 疲れて — being tired / tired and
• ぼんやりしたまま、 — while remaining absent-minded
• 駅を — the station
• 通り過ぎそうになった。 — she almost passed by

So the pattern is:

Topic + state/condition + main event

That is why the sentence feels like:

• She was tired and spaced out, and almost passed the station.