この古い建物は修理する値打ちがない。引き倒す方がよろしい。

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English Translation

This old building isn't worth fixing up. It would be better to tear it down.

Furigana

この古(ふる)い建物(たてもの)は修理(しゅうり)する値打(ねう)ちがない。引(ひ)き倒(たお)す方(ほう)がよろしい。

Romanji

Kono furui tatemono wa shūrisuru neuchi ga nai. hiki taosu hō ga yoroshii.

Words

此の (この)

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

古い (ふるい)

old (not person); aged; ancient; antiquated; stale; threadbare; outmoded; obsolete article

建物 (たてもの)

building

は (は)

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

修理 (しゅうり、しゅり、すり)

repairing; mending; servicing

値打ち (ねうち)

value; worth; price; dignity

が (が)

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

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

引き (ひき)

pull; patronage; influence; tug; discount

倒す (たおす)

to throw down; to bring down; to blow down; to fell; to knock down; to set (something) down on its side; to turn (something) on its side; to kill; to defeat; to beat; to overthrow; to trip up; to ruin; to leave unpaid; to cheat

方 (かた)

direction; way; person; lady; gentleman; method of; manner of; way of; care of ..; person in charge of ..; side (e.g. "on my mother's side")

宜しい (よろしい)

good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do; may; can