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Zach

お姉さんのことはたいへんお気の毒に思います。

Sentence Analyzer

姉さん こと たいへん 気の毒 思います

English Translation

I feel very sorry for your sister.

Furigana

(ねえ)さんのことはたいへんお()(どく)(おも)います。

Romanji

O nēsan no koto wa taihen o kinodoku ni omoimasu.

Words

(お、おん)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
姉さん (ねえさん、あねさん)
elder sister; (vocative) young lady; miss (referring to a waitress, etc.); ma'am (used by geisha to refer to their superiors)
()
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
(こと、こん)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as
()
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
大変 (たいへん)
very; greatly; immense; enormous; great; serious; grave; dreadful; terrible; difficult; hard; major incident; disaster
気の毒 (きのどく)
pitiful; unfortunate; (a) pity
()
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
思う (おもう)
to think; to consider; to believe; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to regard; to imagine; to suppose; to dream; to expect; to look forward to; to feel; to desire; to want; to recall; to remember

Kanji

Readings: シ、 あね、 はは
Meaning: elder sister
Readings: キ、 ケ、 いき
Meanings: spirit, mind, air, atmosphere, mood
Reading: ドク
Meanings: poison, virus, venom, germ, harm, injury, spite
Readings: シ、 おも.う、 おもえら.く、 おぼ.す
Meaning: think