サミット参加国は、自由貿易問題を協議事項のトップにおいています。

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English Translation

The summit nations put free trade at the top of the agenda.

Furigana

サミット参加国(さんかこく)は、自由(じゆう)貿易(ぼうえき)問題(もんだい)を協議(きょうぎ)事項(じこう)のトップにおいています。

Romanji

Samitto sankakoku wa, jiyū bōeki mondai o kyōgi jikō no toppu ni oiteimasu.

Words

サミット (サミット)

summit

参加国 (さんかこく)

participating nation

は (は)

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

自由 (じゆう)

freedom; liberty; as it pleases you

貿易 (ぼうえき)

trade (foreign)

問題 (もんだい)

question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion; controversy; trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty

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.

協議 (きょうぎ)

conference; consultation; discussion; negotiation

事項 (じこう)

matter; item; facts

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

トップ (トップ)

top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat

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

置く (おく)

to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ; to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc); to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool; to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house; to separate spatially or temporally; to do something in advance; to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state