永続的な家をもたなかったから、食糧のための作物を栽培することがなかった。

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English Translation

They did not have permanent homes, so they did not plant crops for food.

Furigana

永続的(えいぞくてき)な家(いえ)をもたなかったから、食糧(しょくりょう)のための作物(さくもつ)を栽培(さいばい)することがなかった。

Romanji

Eizokuteki na ie o motanakatta kara, shokuryō no tame no sakumotsu o saibaisuru koto ga nakatta.

Words

永続的 (えいぞくてき)

permanent; perpetual; persistent; lasting

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

家 (いえ)

house; residence; dwelling; family; household; lineage; family name

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.

持つ (もつ)

to hold (in one's hand); to take; to carry; to possess; to have; to own; to maintain; to keep; to last; to be durable; to keep; to survive; to take charge of; to be in charge of

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

食糧 (しょくりょう)

food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply

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

為 (ため)

good; advantage; benefit; welfare; sake; purpose; objective; aim; consequence; result; effect; affecting; regarding; concerning

作物 (さくもつ)

produce (e.g. agricultural); crops

栽培 (さいばい)

cultivation

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

が (が)

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

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...