父は時には子供じみたことをいったり、します。
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English Translation
My father can be terribly childish, but he means well.
Furigana
Romanji
Chichi wa tokiniha kodomo jimita koto o i tari, shimasu.
Words
父
(ちち、とと、ちゃん、てて、かぞ、かそ、しし、あて)
father
は
(は)
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
時には
(ときには)
at times; occasionally
子供
(こども)
child; children
染みる
(しみる)
to pierce; to penetrate; to soak in; to permeate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to twinge; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice); to be influenced; to feel keenly; to make a deep impression
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.
結う
(ゆう、いう)
to do up (hair); to braid; to fasten; to fix
たり
(たり、だり)
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); (used adverbially) doing such things as...; expresses a command; (after a noun) to be; indicates completion or continuation of an action
為る
(する)
to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to