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日本料理は初めてですか。

Sentence Analyzer

日本 料理 初めて です

English Translation

Is this the first time for you to have Japanese food?

Furigana

日本(にっぽん)料理(りょうり)(はじ)めてですか。

Romanji

Nippon ryōri wa hajimete desu ka.

Words

日本 (にほん、にっぽん)
Japan
料理 (りょうり)
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration; management
()
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
初めて (はじめて)
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...
です (です)
be; is
()
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

Kanji

Readings: ニチ、 ジツ、 ひ、 -び、 -か
Meanings: day, sun, Japan, counter for days
Readings: ホン、 もと
Meanings: book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things
Reading: リョウ
Meanings: fee, materials
Readings: リ、 ことわり
Meanings: logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth
Readings: ショ、 はじ.め、 はじ.めて、 はつ、 はつ-、 うい-、 -そ.める、 -ぞ.め
Meanings: first time, beginning