どんなことがあろうとも、私は友達を裏切るようなことはしない。

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どんな こと が あろう とも 、 私 は 友達 を 裏切る ような こと は しない 。

English Translation

I will never sell my friend down the river for anything in the world.

Furigana

どんなことがあろうとも、私(わたし)は友達(ともだち)を裏切(うらぎ)るようなことはしない。

Romanji

Donna koto ga arou tomo, watashi wa tomodachi o uragiru yōna koto wa shinai.

Words

どんな (どんな)

what; what kind of; (with -temo, demo, etc.) any(body, thing, means, etc.)

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

が (が)

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

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about

とも (とも)

certainly; of course; to be sure; surely; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); though; although; without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.); also (called); emphatic particle

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

は (は)

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

友達 (ともだち)

friend; companion

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.

裏切る (うらぎる)

to betray; to turn traitor to; to double-cross

様だ (ようだ)

(usu. at sentence-end) seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; indicates hope, wish, request or mild command

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

Kanji

私

Readings: シ、 わたくし、 わたし

Meanings: private, I, me

友

Readings: ユウ、 とも

Meaning: friend

達

Readings: タツ、 ダ、 -たち

Meanings: accomplished, reach, arrive, attain

裏

Readings: リ、 うら

Meanings: back, amidst, in, reverse, inside, palm, sole, rear, lining, wrong side

切

Readings: セツ、 サイ、 き.る、 -き.る、 き.り、 -き.り、 -ぎ.り、 き.れる、 -き.れる、 き.れ、 -き.れ、 -ぎ.れ

Meanings: cut, cutoff, be sharp