実業家は、忙しい生活をしていたため、週末を家族と過ごす事ができなかった。

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English Translation

The businessman was leading too busy a life to spend weekends with his family.

Furigana

実業家(じつぎょうか)は、忙(いそが)しい生活(せいかつ)をしていたため、週末(しゅうまつ)を家族(かぞく)と過(す)ごす事(こと)ができなかった。

Romanji

Jitsugyōka wa, isogashii seikatsu o shiteita tame, shūmatsu o kazoku to sugosu koto ga dekinakatta.

Words

実業家 (じつぎょうか)

industrialist; businessman

は (は)

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

忙しい (いそがしい、せわしい)

busy; hectic; occupied; engaged

生活 (せいかつ)

living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood

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.

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

為 (ため)

good; advantage; benefit; welfare; sake; purpose; objective; aim; consequence; result; effect; affecting; regarding; concerning

週末 (しゅうまつ)

weekend

家族 (かぞく)

family; members of a family

と (と)

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

過ごす (すごす)

to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); to take care of; to support; to overdo; to do too much; to ... without acting on it

事 (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

が (が)

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

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant