よくあることだが、彼は授業中ずっと眠っていた。

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English Translation

As often happens, he slept right through the lesson.

Furigana

よくあることだが、彼(かれ)は授業中(じゅぎょうちゅう)ずっと眠(ねむ)っていた。

Romanji

Yoku aru koto da ga, kare wa jugyōchū zutto nemutteita.

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

授業中 (じゅぎょうちゅう)

while in class

ずっと (ずっと、ずーっと、ずうっと)

continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; all along; the whole time; all the way; much (better, etc.); by far; far and away; far away; long ago; direct; straight

眠る (ねむる、ねぶる)

to sleep (not necessarily lying down); to die; to close one's eyes