この機械は、誰によって発明されたのですか。

Sentence Analyzer

この 機械 は 、 誰 によって 発明された の です か 。

English Translation

By whom was this machine invented?

Furigana

この機械(きかい)は、誰(だれ)によって発明(はつめい)されたのですか。

Romanji

Kono kikai wa, dare niyotte hatsumeisareta no desu ka.

Words

此の (この)

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

機械 (きかい)

machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus

は (は)

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

誰 (だれ、たれ、た)

who

に因って (によって)

according to; by (means of); due to; because of

発明 (はつめい)

invention; intelligent; clever; being enlightened; having the meaning of everything become clear

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

です (です)

be; is

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

機

Readings: キ、 はた

Meanings: loom, mechanism, machine, airplane, opportunity, potency, efficacy, occasion

械

Readings: カイ、 かせ

Meanings: contraption, fetter, machine, instrument

誰

Readings: スイ、 だれ、 たれ、 た

Meanings: who, someone, somebody

発

Readings: ハツ、 ホツ、 た.つ、 あば.く、 おこ.る、 つか.わす、 はな.つ

Meanings: departure, discharge, publish, emit, start from, disclose, counter for gunshots

明

Readings: メイ、 ミョウ、 ミン、 あ.かり、 あか.るい、 あか.るむ、 あか.らむ、 あき.らか、 あ.ける、 -あ.け、 あ.く、 あ.くる、 あ.かす

Meanings: bright, light