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Zach

そして彼らはヨーロッパ人が知らなかったことを知っていた。

Sentence Analyzer

そして 彼ら よーろっぱ人 知らなかった こと 知っていた

English Translation

And they knew something which the Europeans did not.

Furigana

そして(かれ)らはヨーロッパ(じん)()らなかったことを()っていた。

Romanji

Soshite karera wa Yo-Roppajin ga shiranakatta koto o shitteita.

Words

然して (そして、しかして)
and; and then; thus; and now
彼ら (かれら)
they (usually male); them
()
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
ヨーロッパ人 (ヨーロッパじん)
European (person)
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
知る (しる)
to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure); to experience; to go through; to learn; to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know; to concern
(こと、こん)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as
()
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.

Kanji

Readings: ヒ、 かれ、 かの、 か.の
Meanings: he, that, the
Readings: ジン、 ニン、 ひと、 -り、 -と
Meaning: person
Readings: チ、 し.る、 し.らせる
Meanings: know, wisdom