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どんな品物に税金がかかりますか。

Sentence Analyzer

どんな 品物 税金 かかります

English Translation

What sort of thing must I pay tax on?

Furigana

どんな品物(しなもの)税金(ぜいきん)がかかりますか。

Romanji

Donna shinamono ni zeikin ga kakarimasu ka.

Words

どんな (どんな)
what; what kind of; (with -temo, demo, etc.) any(body, thing, means, etc.)
品物 (しなもの)
goods; article; thing
()
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
税金 (ぜいきん)
tax; duty
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
掛かる (かかる)
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend; to deal with; to handle; to have started to; to be on the verge of; to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover; to (come) at; to be fastened; to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.); to be caught in; to get a call; to depend on
()
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

Kanji

Readings: ヒン、 ホン、 しな
Meanings: goods, refinement, dignity, article, counter for meal courses
Readings: ブツ、 モツ、 もの、 もの-
Meanings: thing, object, matter
Reading: ゼイ
Meanings: tax, duty
Readings: キン、 コン、 ゴン、 かね、 かな-、 -がね
Meaning: gold