昨夜、約８万人の観衆がスタジアムをうずめた。

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English Translation

About eighty thousand spectators packed into the stadium last night.

Furigana

昨夜(さくや)、約(やく)８万(まん)人(にん)の観衆(かんしゅう)がスタジアムをうずめた。

Romanji

Sakuya, yaku hachi man nin no kanshū ga sutajiamu o uzumeta.

Words

夕べ (ゆうべ、ゆう、さくや)

evening; last night

約 (やく)

approximately; about; promise; shortening; reduction; simplification; contraction (in phonetics)

八 (はち、や)

eight

万 (まん、よろず)

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; various

人 (じん)

-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); indicates nationality, race, origin, etc.; -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; indicates expertise (in a certain field); (usu. in compound words) man; person; people

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

観衆 (かんしゅう)

spectators; onlookers; members of the audience

が (が)

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

スタジアム (スタジアム)

stadium

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.

薄める (うすめる)

to dilute; to water down