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夜遅くまで電話で話す事などまずめったにない。

Sentence Analyzer

遅く まで 電話 話す など まず めったに ない

English Translation

I rarely, if ever, talk on the phone till late at night.

Furigana

(よる)(おそ)くまで電話(でんわ)(はな)(こと)などまずめったにない。

Romanji

Yoru osoku made denwa de hanasu koto nado mazu mettani nai.

Words

(よる、よ)
evening; night
遅い (おそい)
slow; late (e.g. "late at night"); too late; dull; stupid
(まで)
until (a time); till; to; up to; to (a place); as far as; to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; only; merely
電話 (でんわ)
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
(で、にて)
indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.
話す (はなす)
to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat; to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss; to speak (a language)
(こと、こん)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as
(など)
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth; or something; the likes of
先ず (まず)
first (of all); to start with; about; almost; anyway; well; now; hardly (with neg. verb)
滅多に (めったに)
rarely; seldom
ない (ない)
not; emphatic suffix

Kanji

Readings: ヤ、 よ、 よる
Meanings: night, evening
Readings: チ、 おく.れる、 おく.らす、 おそ.い
Meanings: slow, late, back, later
Reading: デン
Meaning: electricity
Readings: ワ、 はな.す、 はなし
Meanings: tale, talk
Readings: ジ、 ズ、 こと、 つか.う、 つか.える
Meanings: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly