奥さんの問題にどうしてそう無関心でいられるのか。

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English Translation

How can you be so indifferent to your wife's trouble?

Furigana

奥(おく)さんの問題(もんだい)にどうしてそう無(む)関心(かんしん)でいられるのか。

Romanji

Okusan no mondai ni dōshite sō mu kanshin de irareru no ka.

Words

奥さん (おくさん)

wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam

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

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

に (に)

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

如何して (どうして)

why?; for what reason; how; in what way; for what purpose; what for

そう (そう)

so; really; seeming; appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of

無 (む)

nothing; naught; nought; nil; zero; un-; non-

関心 (かんしん)

concern; interest

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

要る (いる)

to need; to want

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