新事業が彼の財産を食いつぶしていった。

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新事業が彼の財産を食いつぶしていった。

English Translation

The new business was eating away his fortune.

Furigana

新(しん)事業(じぎょう)が彼(かれ)の財産(ざいさん)を食(く)いつぶしていった。

Romanji

Shin jigyō ga kare no zaisan o kuitsubushiteitta.

Words

新 (しん)

new; neo-; Gregorian calendar; Xin (dynasty of China)

事業 (じぎょう、ことわざ)

project; enterprise; business; industry; operations; venture; service; act; deed; conduct

が (が)

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

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

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

財産 (ざいさん)

property; fortune; assets

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.

食いつぶす (くいつぶす)

to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely