道路がほこりっぽい。昨日雨が降ったはずがない。

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English Translation

The road is dusty. It cannot have rained yesterday.

Furigana

道路(どうろ)がほこりっぽい。昨日(きのう)雨(あめ)が降(ふ)ったはずがない。

Romanji

Dōro ga hokori ppoi. kinō ame ga futta hazu ga nai.

Words

道路 (どうろ)

road; highway

が (が)

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

埃 (ほこり、ホコリ、あい)

dust; one ten-billionth

っぽい (っぽい、ぽい)

-ish; -like; tossing something out; throwing something away

昨日 (きのう、さくじつ)

yesterday

雨 (あめ)

rain

下る (くだる)

to descend; to go down; to come down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; (often in neg. form) to be less than; to be inferior to; to have the runs; to have diarrhea

筈 (はず)

expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be; nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...