よくあることだが、彼は遅れてやってきた。
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English Translation
As was often the case with him, he came late.
Furigana
よくあることだが、彼 は遅 れてやってきた。
Romanji
Yoku aru koto da ga, kare wa okurete yattekita.
Words
良く
(よく)
nicely; properly; well; skillfully; skilfully; frequently; often
有る
(ある)
to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
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
だ
(だ)
be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative
が
(が)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
彼
(かれ)
he; him; his; boyfriend
は
(は)
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
遅れる
(おくれる)
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind schedule; to be overdue
やって来る
(やってくる)
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)