まず第一にここにお招きいただいてとても嬉しく思っている事を述べます。

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English Translation

First of all, let me say how glad I am to be here.

Furigana

まず第(だい)一(いち)にここにお招(まね)きいただいてとても嬉(うれ)しく思(おも)っている事(こと)を述(の)べます。

Romanji

Mazu dai ichi ni koko ni o manekiitadaite totemo ureshiku omotteiru koto o nobemasu.

Words

先ず (まず)

first (of all); to start with; about; almost; anyway; well; now; hardly (with neg. verb)

第 (だい)

ordinal

一 (いち)

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

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

此処 (ここ)

here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place; these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker); these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ...

御 (お、おん)

honorific/polite/humble prefix

招く (まねく)

to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to gesture to; to call in; to send for; to summon; to bring on oneself; to cause; to incur; to lead to; to result in

迚も (とても、とっても)

very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)

嬉しい (うれしい)

happy; glad; pleasant

思う (おもう)

to think; to consider; to believe; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to regard; to imagine; to suppose; to dream; to expect; to look forward to; to feel; to desire; to want; to recall; to remember

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

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.

述べる (のべる)

to state; to express; to mention