メアリーは、私が電話したときには１時間編物をしていた。

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English Translation

Mary had been knitting for an hour when I called.

Furigana

メアリーは、私(わたし)が電話(でんわ)したときには１時間(じかん)編物(あみもの)をしていた。

Romanji

Meari- wa, watashi ga denwashita tokini wa ichi jikan amimono o shiteita.

Words

は (は)

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

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

電話 (でんわ)

telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone

時に (ときに)

by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally

一 (いち)

one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)

時間 (じかん)

time; hours

編み物 (あみもの)

knitting; knitted material; crochet

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.

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to