どうしてニューヨークのことをビッグアップルってよぶの？
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English Translation
Why do they call New York the Big Apple?
Furigana
どうしてニューヨークのことをビッグアップルってよぶの？
Romanji
Dōshite Nyu-Yo-Ku no koto o biggu appuru tte yobu no?
Words
如何して
(どうして)
why?; for what reason; how; in what way; for what purpose; what for
紐育
(ニューヨーク)
New York (US state, city)
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
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.
ビッグ
(ビッグ)
big
アップル
(アップル)
apple; Apple (computer company)
って
(って、て)
casual quoting particle; indicates supposition; if ... then; indicates a rhetorical question; indicates certainty, insistence, etc.
呼ぶ
(よぶ)
to call out (to); to call; to invoke; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to brand; to garner (support, etc.); to gather; to take as one's wife