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だれが一番優れているか、この際はっきり決めましょう。

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だれ 一番 優れている この はっきり 決めましょう

English Translation

We will settle once for all who is the best.

Furigana

だれが一番(いちばん)(すぐ)れているか、この(さい)はっきり()めましょう。

Romanji

Dare ga ichiban sugureteiru ka, kono sai hakkiri kimemashō.

Words

(だれ、たれ、た)
who
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
一番 (いちばん)
number one; first; first place; best; most; game; round; bout; as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively; song (e.g. in Noh); piece
優れる (すぐれる)
to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
()
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
此の (この)
this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)
(さい)
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
はっきり (はっきり)
clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain; to be exact; to become clear; to clear up
決める (きめる)
to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do; to have made a habit of; to take for granted; to assume; to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines; to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing; to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.); to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs

Kanji

Readings: イチ、 イツ、 ひと-、 ひと.つ
Meanings: one, one radical (no.1)
Readings: バン、 つが.い
Meanings: turn, number in a series
Readings: ユウ、 ウ、 やさ.しい、 すぐ.れる、 まさ.る
Meanings: tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority, gentleness
Readings: サイ、 きわ、 -ぎわ
Meanings: occasion, side, edge, verge, dangerous, adventurous, indecent, time, when
Readings: ケツ、 き.める、 -ぎ.め、 き.まる、 さ.く
Meanings: decide, fix, agree upon, appoint