電話機が故障しているかどうか調べていただけますか。

Sentence Analyzer

電話機 が 故障している か どう か 調べて いただけます か 。

English Translation

Can you check if the phone is out of order?

Furigana

電話機(でんわき)が故障(こしょう)しているかどうか調(しら)べていただけますか。

Romanji

Denwaki ga koshōshiteiru ka dō ka shirabete itadakemasu ka.

Words

電話機 (でんわき)

telephone instrument

が (が)

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

故障 (こしょう)

breakdown; failure; fault; accident; out of order; damage; hurt; objection; protest

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

如何 (どう、いかが、いか)

how; in what way; how about

調べる (しらべる)

to examine; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study; to inquire; to search

頂ける (いただける)

to be able to receive; to be able to take; to be able to accept; to be able to eat; to be able to drink; to be acceptable; to be satisfactory

Kanji

電

Reading: デン

Meaning: electricity

話

Readings: ワ、 はな.す、 はなし

Meanings: tale, talk

機

Readings: キ、 はた

Meanings: loom, mechanism, machine, airplane, opportunity, potency, efficacy, occasion

故

Readings: コ、 ゆえ、 ふる.い、 もと

Meanings: happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently

障

Readings: ショウ、 さわ.る

Meanings: hinder, hurt, harm

調

Readings: チョウ、 しら.べる、 しら.べ、 ととの.う、 ととの.える

Meanings: tune, tone, meter, key (music), writing style, prepare, exorcise, investigate, harmonize, mediate