なぜ新婚の日本人の男性は自分の妻について悪いことをいったのか。

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English Translation

Why did the newly married Japanese man say something bad about his wife?

Furigana

なぜ新婚(しんこん)の日本人(にっぽんじん)の男性(だんせい)は自分(じぶん)の妻(つま)について悪(わる)いことをいったのか。

Romanji

Naze shinkon no nipponjin no dansei wa jibun no tsuma nitsuite warui koto o itta no ka.

Words

何故 (なぜ、なにゆえ)

why; how

新婚 (しんこん)

newly-wed

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

日本人 (にほんじん、にっぽんじん)

Japanese person; Japanese people

男性 (だんせい)

man; male; masculine gender

は (は)

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

自分 (じぶん)

myself; yourself; oneself; himself; herself; I; me; you

妻 (つま)

wife; my dear; dear; honey; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment

に就いて (について)

concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every

悪い (わるい)

bad; poor; inferior; evil; sinful; unprofitable; unbeneficial; at fault; to blame; in the wrong; sorry

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.

結う (ゆう、いう)

to do up (hair); to braid; to fasten; to fix

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