私たちは生きていくためには衣・食・住が必要です。

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English Translation

We need food, clothes and a home in order to live.

Furigana

私(わたし)たちは生(い)きていくためには衣(ころも)・食(しょく)・住(じゅう)が必要(ひつよう)です。

Romanji

Watashitachi wa ikiteiku tameni wa koromo shoku jū ga hitsuyō desu.

Words

私たち (わたしたち、わたくしたち)

we; us

は (は)

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

生きる (いきる)

to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use; to function; to come to life; to be enlivened; to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

為に (ために)

for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of; because of; as a result of

衣 (ころも)

clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)

・ (なかぽち)

middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)

食 (しょく)

meal; (one's) diet; food; foodstuff; foodstuffs; eclipse (solar, lunar, etc.)

住 (じゅう)

dwelling; living

が (が)

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

必要 (ひつよう)

necessary; needed; essential; indispensable; necessity; need; requirement

です (です)

be; is