３分の２の学生が学生大会に欠席した理由がわかりますか。

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English Translation

Do you know the reason why two-thirds of the students did not attend the student meeting?

Furigana

３分(ぶん)の２の学生(がくせい)が学生(がくせい)大会(たいかい)に欠席(けっせき)した理由(りゆう)がわかりますか。

Romanji

San bunno ni no gakusei ga gakusei taikai ni kessekishita riyū ga wakarimasu ka.

Words

三 (さん、み)

three; tri-

分の (ぶんの)

-th (e.g. one fifth)

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

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

学生 (がくせい)

student (esp. a university student)

が (が)

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

大会 (たいかい)

convention; tournament; mass meeting; rally

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

欠席 (けっせき)

absence; non-attendance

理由 (りゆう、わけ)

reason; pretext; motive

分かる (わかる)

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out

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