音楽は聞くのが好きですか、それとも歌うのが好きですか。

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English Translation

Do you like listening to music or singing songs?

Furigana

音楽(おんがく)は聞(き)くのが好(す)きですか、それとも歌(うた)うのが好(す)きですか。

Romanji

Ongaku wa kiku no ga suki desu ka, soretomo utau no ga suki desu ka.

Words

音楽 (おんがく)

music; musical movement

は (は)

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

聞く (きく)

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to query; to learn of; to hear about; to follow (advice); to comply with; to smell (esp. incense); to sample fragrance

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

が (が)

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

好き (すき)

liking; fondness; love

です (です)

be; is

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

其れ共 (それとも)

or; or else

歌う (うたう)

to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem