ご迷惑でしょうが、駅までの道を教えていただけませんか。

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ご 迷惑 でしょう が 、 駅 まで の 道 を 教えていた だけません か 。

English Translation

I'm sorry to trouble you, but could you tell me the way to the station?

Furigana

ご迷惑(めいわく)でしょうが、駅(えき)までの道(みち)を教(おし)えていただけませんか。

Romanji

Go meiwaku deshō ga, eki made no michi o oshieteita dakemasen ka.

Words

御 (ご)

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

迷惑 (めいわく、べいこく)

trouble; bother; annoyance

デス (デス)

death

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

駅 (えき)

station

迄 (まで)

until (a time); till; to; up to; to (a place); as far as; to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; only; merely

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

道 (みち)

road; street; way; path; course; route; lane; distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways"); the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals; teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma; field (of medicine, etc.); subject; way; method; means

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.

教える (おしえる)

to teach; to inform; to instruct

丈 (だけ)

only; just; merely; simply; no more than; nothing but; alone; as (e.g. as soon as, as much as); worth

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

Kanji

迷

Readings: メイ、 まよ.う

Meanings: astray, be perplexed, in doubt, lost, err, illusion

惑

Readings: ワク、 まど.う

Meanings: beguile, delusion, perplexity

駅

Reading: エキ

Meaning: station

道

Readings: ドウ、 トウ、 みち

Meanings: road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings

教

Readings: キョウ、 おし.える、 おそ.わる

Meanings: teach, faith, doctrine