父の病状は一喜一憂です。

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父 の 病状 は 一喜一憂 です 。

English Translation

My father's condition seems to improve one moment, but the next moment he sinks again.

Furigana

父(ちち)の病状(びょうじょう)は一喜一憂(いっきいちゆう)です。

Romanji

Chichi no byōjō wa ikkiichiyū desu.

Words

父 (ちち、とと、ちゃん、てて、かぞ、かそ、しし、あて)

father

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

病状 (びょうじょう)

patient's condition; pathology

は (は)

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

一喜一憂 (いっきいちゆう)

now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease

です (です)

be; is

Kanji

父

Readings: フ、 ちち

Meaning: father

病

Readings: ビョウ、 ヘイ、 や.む、 -や.み、 やまい

Meanings: ill, sick

状

Reading: ジョウ

Meanings: status quo, conditions, circumstances, form, appearance

一

Readings: イチ、 イツ、 ひと-、 ひと.つ

Meanings: one, one radical (no.1)

喜

Readings: キ、 よろこ.ぶ、 よろこ.ばす

Meanings: rejoice, take pleasure in

憂

Readings: ユウ、 うれ.える、 うれ.い、 う.い、 う.き

Meanings: melancholy, grieve, lament, be anxious, sad, unhappy