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タモリさん、電話が故障しています。

Sentence Analyzer

たもり さん 電話 故障しています

English Translation

The telephone is out of order, Mr Tamori.

Furigana

タモリさん、電話(でんわ)故障(こしょう)しています。

Romanji

Tamori san, denwa ga koshōshiteimasu.

Words

田守 (たもり)
protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field
さん (さん)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san; makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions)
電話 (でんわ)
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
故障 (こしょう)
breakdown; failure; fault; accident; out of order; damage; hurt; objection; protest

Kanji

Reading: デン
Meaning: electricity
Readings: ワ、 はな.す、 はなし
Meanings: tale, talk
Readings: コ、 ゆえ、 ふる.い、 もと
Meanings: happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently
Readings: ショウ、 さわ.る
Meanings: hinder, hurt, harm