お茶を飲んでいるとき、地震があった。

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お茶を飲んでいるとき、地震があった。

English Translation

While we were having tea, there was an earthquake.

Furigana

お茶(ちゃ)を飲(の)んでいるとき、地震(じしん)があった。

Romanji

Ocha o nondeiru toki, jishin ga atta.

Words

お茶 (おちゃ)

tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony

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.

飲む (のむ)

to drink; to gulp; to swallow; to take (medicine); to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress; to accept (e.g. demand, condition); to make light of; to conceal

とき (とき)

regular (stops at every station) Jouetsu-line Shinkansen

地震 (じしん、ない、なえ、じぶるい)

earthquake

が (が)

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

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about