もうすぐ昼食の時間です。手を休めて軽く食べませんか。

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English Translation

It's nearly lunchtime. Why don't we stop to have a bite to eat?

Furigana

もうすぐ昼食(ちゅうしょく)の時間(じかん)です。手(て)を休(やす)めて軽(かる)く食(た)べませんか。

Romanji

Mōsugu chūshoku no jikan desu. te o yasumete karuku tabemasen ka.

Words

もう直ぐ (もうすぐ)

very soon

昼食 (ちゅうしょく、ちゅうじき、ひるげ)

lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

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

時間 (じかん)

time; hours

です (です)

be; is

手 (て)

hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker; help; trouble; care; effort; means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship; hand; handwriting; kind; type; sort; one's hands; one's possession; ability to cope; hand (of cards); direction; move (in go, shogi, etc.)

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.

休める (やすめる)

to rest; to suspend; to give relief

軽い (かるい、かろい)

light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily); light (i.e. of foot); nimble; agile; non-serious; minor; unimportant; trivial; slight; small; gentle; soft; easy; simple; indiscriminate

食べる (たべる)

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way