もし空気がなければ、飛行機は飛ぶことができないだろう。

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English Translation

If it were not for the air, planes could not fly.

Furigana

もし空気(くうき)がなければ、飛行機(ひこうき)は飛(と)ぶことができないだろう。

Romanji

Moshi kūki ga nakereba, hikōki wa tobu koto ga dekinai darou.

Words

若し (もし)

if; in case; supposing

空気 (くうき)

air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all

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 ...

飛行機 (ひこうき)

aeroplane; airplane; aircraft

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

飛ぶ (とぶ)

to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spring; to bound; to hop

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

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant

だ (だ)

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