この制度は欠陥だらけだ。

この制度は欠陥だらけだ。

This system is bristling with defects and drawbacks.

この制度(せいど)は欠陥(けっかん)だらけだ。

Kono seido wa kekkandarake da.

此の (この)

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

制度 (せいど)

system; institution; organization; organisation

は (は)

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

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

Reading: セイ

Meanings: system, law, rule

Readings: ド、ト、タク、たび、 -た.い

Meanings: degrees, occurrence, time, counter for occurrences, consider, attitude

Readings: ケツ、ケン、か.ける、か.く

Meanings: lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)

Readings: カン、おちい.る、おとしい.れる

Meanings: collapse, fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into