なぜそんなに大勢の人々が京都を訪れるのですか。

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English Translation

Why do so many people visit Kyoto?

Furigana

なぜそんなに大勢(たいせい)の人々(ひとびと)が京都(きょうと)を訪(おとず)れるのですか。

Romanji

Naze sonnani taisei no hitobito ga Kyōto o otozureru no desu ka.

Words

何故 (なぜ、なにゆえ)

why; how

そんなに (そんなに)

so much; so; like that

大勢 (たいせい)

general trend; current thought

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

人々 (ひとびと、にんにん)

each person; people; men and women; everybody

が (が)

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

京都 (きょうと)

Kyoto

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.

訪れる (おとずれる、おとづれる)

to visit; to call on; to arrive; to come; to appear

です (です)

be; is

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