長い間ずっと雨がなかった後昨日雨が降った。

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English Translation

It rained yesterday after it had been dry for a long time.

Furigana

長(なが)い間(ま)ずっと雨(あめ)がなかった後(のち)昨日(きのう)雨(あめ)が降(ふ)った。

Romanji

Nagai ma zutto ame ga nakatta nochi kinō ame ga futta.

Words

長い (ながい)

long (distance); long (time); lengthy

間 (ま)

space; room; time; pause

ずっと (ずっと、ずーっと、ずうっと)

continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; all along; the whole time; all the way; much (better, etc.); by far; far and away; far away; long ago; direct; straight

雨 (あめ)

rain

が (が)

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

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 ...

後 (のち)

later; afterwards; since; future; after one's death; descendant

昨日 (きのう、さくじつ)

yesterday

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