あなたは海外へ遊びで行きましたか、それとも商売でしたか。

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English Translation

Did you go abroad for pleasure or on business?

Furigana

あなたは海外(かいがい)へ遊(あそ)びで行(い)きましたか、それとも商売(しょうばい)でしたか。

Romanji

Anata wa kaigai e asobi de ikimashita ka, soretomo shōbai deshita ka.

Words

貴方 (あなた)

you (referring to someone of equal or lower status); dear (what a wife calls a husband)

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

海外 (かいがい)

foreign; abroad; overseas

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

遊び (あそび)

playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

行く (いく、ゆく)

to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to head (towards); to be transported (towards); to reach; to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk; to die; to pass away; to do (in a specific way); to stream; to flow; to continue; to have an orgasm; to come; to cum; to trip; to get high; to have a drug-induced hallucination

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

商売 (しょうばい)

trade; business; commerce; transaction; occupation

デス (デス)

death