物価の上がり下がりが金融危機を引き起こした。

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English Translation

The rise and fall of prices caused a financial crisis.

Furigana

物価(ぶっか)の上(あ)がり下(さ)がりが金融(きんゆう)危機(きき)を引(ひ)き起(お)こした。

Romanji

Bukka no agari sagari ga kin'yū kiki o hikiokoshita.

Words

物価 (ぶっか)

prices of commodities; prices (in general); cost-of-living

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

上がり (あがり)

rise; increase; ascent; income; proceeds; return; profit; crop yield; freshly-drawn green tea (esp. in sushi shops); completion; stop; finish; end result (e.g. of crafts like painting, pottery, etc.); how something comes out; after (rain, illness, etc.); ex- (e.g. ex-bureaucrat)

下がり (さがり)

fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward); string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt; food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs; leaving (one's master's place for home); a little after ...

が (が)

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

金融 (きんゆう)

financing; credit transacting; loaning of money; circulation of money

危機 (きき)

crisis; danger; risk

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

引き起こす (ひきおこす)

to cause; to induce; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)