最近、学校時代の旧友と接触がありましたか。

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English Translation

Have you been in contact with one of your old school friends recently?

Furigana

最近(さいきん)、学校(がっこう)時代(じだい)の旧友(きゅうゆう)と接触(せっしょく)がありましたか。

Romanji

Saikin, gakkō jidai no kyūyū to sesshoku ga arimashita ka.

Words

最近 (さいきん)

most recent; these days; right now; recently; nowadays

学校 (がっこう)

school

時代 (じだい)

period; epoch; era; age; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness; antiquity; antique; period piece

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

旧友 (きゅうゆう)

crony; old friend

と (と)

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

接触 (せっしょく)

touch; contact

が (が)

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

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

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way