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This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

急いては事を仕損じる。

Sentence Analyzer

急いて は 事 を 仕損じる 。

English Translation

Haste makes waste.

Furigana

急(いそ)いては事(こと)を仕損(しそん)じる。

Romanji

Isoite wa koto o shisonjiru.

Words

急ぐ (いそぐ)
to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner
は (は)
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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
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.
仕損じる (しそんじる)
to blunder; to fail; to make a mistake

Kanji

急
Readings: キュウ、 いそ.ぐ、 いそ.ぎ
Meanings: hurry, emergency, sudden, steep
事
Readings: ジ、 ズ、 こと、 つか.う、 つか.える
Meanings: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
仕
Readings: シ、 ジ、 つか.える
Meanings: attend, doing, official, serve
損
Readings: ソン、 そこ.なう、 そこな.う、 -そこ.なう、 そこ.ねる、 -そこ.ねる
Meanings: damage, loss, disadvantage, hurt, injure