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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English Translation

We will settle once for all who is the best.

Furigana

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

Romanji

Dare ga ichiban sugureteiru ka, kono sai hakkiri kimemashō.

Words

誰 (だれ、たれ、た)

who

が (が)

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

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

此の (この)

this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)

際 (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

一

Readings: イチ、イツ、ひと-、ひと.つ

Meanings: one, one radical (no.1)

番

Readings: バン、つが.い

Meanings: turn, number in a series

優

Readings: ユウ、ウ、やさ.しい、すぐ.れる、まさ.る

Meanings: tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority, gentleness

際

Readings: サイ、きわ、 -ぎわ

Meanings: occasion, side, edge, verge, dangerous, adventurous, indecent, time, when

決

Readings: ケツ、き.める、 -ぎ.め、き.まる、さ.く

Meanings: decide, fix, agree upon, appoint