ウイリアムさんがベトナム戦争を経験しているってこと知りませんでした。

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English Translation

I didn't know that Mr. Williams fought in the Vietnam War.

Furigana

ウイリアムさんがベトナム戦争(せんそう)を経験(けいけん)しているってこと知(し)りませんでした。

Romanji

Uiriamu san ga Betonamu sensō o keikenshiteiru tte koto shirimasen deshita.

Words

さん (さん)

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san; makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions)

が (が)

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

越南 (えつなん、ベトナム)

Vietnam

戦争 (せんそう)

war

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.

経験 (けいけん)

experience

って (って、て)

casual quoting particle; indicates supposition; if ... then; indicates a rhetorical question; indicates certainty, insistence, etc.

事 (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

知る (しる)

to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure); to experience; to go through; to learn; to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know; to concern

デス (デス)

death