ベルリンの壁が崩壊したのは１９８９年のことだった。
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English Translation
It was in 1989 that the Berlin Wall was taken down.
Furigana
ベルリンの壁 が崩壊 したのは１９８９年 のことだった。
Romanji
Berurin no kabe ga hōkaishita no wa ichi kyū hachi kyū nen no koto datta.
Words
伯林
(ベルリン)
Berlin
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
壁
(かべ、へき)
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
が
(が)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
崩壊
(ほうかい)
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in; decay
は
(は)
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
一
(いち)
one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)
九
(きゅう、く、ここの、この、ここ)
nine
八
(はち、や)
eight
年
(とし)
year; many years; age; past one's prime; old age
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
だ
(だ)
be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative