それらの動物は絶滅の危機にさらされていた。

Sentence Analyzer

それら の 動物 は 絶滅 の 危機 に さらされていた 。

English Translation

Those animals were in danger of dying out.

Furigana

それらの動物(どうぶつ)は絶滅(ぜつめつ)の危機(きき)にさらされていた。

Romanji

Sorera no dōbutsu wa zetsumetsu no kiki ni sarasareteita.

Words

其れ等 (それら)

those (near the second person)

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

動物 (どうぶつ)

animal

は (は)

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

絶滅 (ぜつめつ)

destruction; extinction

危機 (きき)

crisis; danger; risk

に (に)

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

晒す (さらす)

to expose (to the air, to the public, to danger, etc.); to bleach; to refine

Kanji

動

Readings: ドウ、 うご.く、 うご.かす

Meanings: move, motion, change, confusion, shift, shake

物

Readings: ブツ、 モツ、 もの、 もの-

Meanings: thing, object, matter

絶

Readings: ゼツ、 た.える、 た.やす、 た.つ

Meanings: discontinue, beyond, sever, cut off, abstain, interrupt, suppress

滅

Readings: メツ、 ほろ.びる、 ほろ.ぶ、 ほろ.ぼす

Meanings: destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish

危

Readings: キ、 あぶ.ない、 あや.うい、 あや.ぶむ

Meanings: dangerous, fear, uneasy

機

Readings: キ、 はた

Meanings: loom, mechanism, machine, airplane, opportunity, potency, efficacy, occasion