洗面所のドアの表示が使用中となっているときは、だれかがそれをつかっているという意味です。

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English Translation

When the sign on the door of a rest room says OCCUPIED, it means someone is using it.

Furigana

洗面所(せんめんしょ)のドアの表示(ひょうじ)が使用中(しようちゅう)となっているときは、だれかがそれをつかっているという意味(いみ)です。

Romanji

Senmensho no doa no hyōji ga shiyōchū to natteiru toki wa, dare ka ga sore o tsukatteiru toiu imi desu.

Words

洗面所 (せんめんじょ)

washroom; bathroom

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

ドア (ドア)

door (Western-style)

表示 (ひょうじ)

indication; expression; showing; manifestation; demonstration; display; displaying; representation

が (が)

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

使用中 (しようちゅう)

busy; in the middle (of)

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

成る (なる)

to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain; to result in; to prove to be; to consist of; to be composed of; to succeed; to be complete; to change into; to be exchanged for; to play a role; to be promoted; to do ...

とき (とき)

regular (stops at every station) Jouetsu-line Shinkansen

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

誰 (だれ、たれ、た)

who

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

其れ (それ)

that (indicating an item or person near the listener, the action of the listener, or something on their mind); it; that time; then; there (indicating a place near the listener); you

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.

使う (つかう)

to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume; to use (language); to speak

と言う (という、とゆう)

called; named; as many as; as much as; all X; every X

意味 (いみ)

meaning; significance

です (です)

be; is