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次のような問題を想像してください。あなたのお兄さんが自動車事故にあったとしましょう。

Sentence Analyzer

ような 問題 想像して ください あなた 兄さん 自動車 事故 あった しましょう

English Translation

Imagine a problem such as this: Suppose your brother has a car accident.

Furigana

(つぎ)のような問題(もんだい)想像(そうぞう)してください。あなたのお(にい)さんが自動車(じどうしゃ)事故(じこ)にあったとしましょう。

Romanji

Tsugi no yōna mondai o sōzōshite kudasai. anata no o niisan ga jidōsha jiko ni atta to shimashō.

Words

(つぎ)
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
()
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
様だ (ようだ)
(usu. at sentence-end) seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; indicates hope, wish, request or mild command
問題 (もんだい)
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion; controversy; trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty
()
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.
想像 (そうぞう)
imagination; guess
下さる (くださる)
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour; to favor
貴方 (あなた)
you (referring to someone of equal or lower status); dear (what a wife calls a husband)
(お、おん)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
兄さん (にいさん、あにさん)
older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); (vocative) young man; buddy; fella; laddie
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
自動車 (じどうしゃ)
automobile
事故 (じこ、ことゆえ)
accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons
()
at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although
有る (ある)
to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
()
if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)
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

Kanji

Readings: ジ、 シ、 つ.ぐ、 つぎ
Meanings: next, order, sequence
Readings: モン、 と.う、 と.い、 とん
Meanings: question, ask, problem
Reading: ダイ
Meanings: topic, subject
Readings: ソウ、 ソ、 おも.う
Meanings: concept, think, idea, thought
Reading: ゾウ
Meanings: statue, picture, image, figure, portrait
Readings: ケイ、 キョウ、 あに
Meanings: elder brother, big brother
Readings: ジ、 シ、 みずか.ら、 おの.ずから、 おの.ずと
Meaning: oneself
Readings: ドウ、 うご.く、 うご.かす
Meanings: move, motion, change, confusion, shift, shake
Readings: シャ、 くるま
Meaning: car
Readings: ジ、 ズ、 こと、 つか.う、 つか.える
Meanings: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Readings: コ、 ゆえ、 ふる.い、 もと
Meanings: happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently