この事件の陰に誰か黒幕がいるに違いない。

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English Translation

There must be someone behind this affair.

Furigana

この事件(じけん)の陰(かげ)に誰(だれ)か黒幕(くろまく)がいるに違(ちが)いない。

Romanji

Kono jiken no kage ni dare ka kuromaku ga iru ni chigainai.

Words

此の (この)

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

事件 (じけん)

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal

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

陰 (かげ)

shade; shadow; other side; back; background

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

誰 (だれ、たれ、た)

who

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

黒幕 (くろまく)

black curtain; wire puller; mastermind; political fixer; power broker

が (が)

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

居る (いる)

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)

違い (ちがい)

difference; discrepancy