音楽を聴くのが好きですか、それとも、歌うのが好きですか。

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English Translation

Do you like listening to music or singing songs?

Furigana

音楽(おんがく)を聴(き)くのが好(す)きですか、それとも、歌(うた)うのが好(す)きですか。

Romanji

Ongaku o kiku no ga suki desu ka, soretomo, utau no ga suki desu ka.

Words

音楽 (おんがく)

music; musical movement

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

聞く (きく)

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to query; to learn of; to hear about; to follow (advice); to comply with; to smell (esp. incense); to sample fragrance

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

好き (すき)

liking; fondness; love

です (です)

be; is

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

其れ共 (それとも)

or; or else

歌う (うたう)

to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem