あんな習慣が最初にいつ生まれたのかは誰にもわからない。

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English Translation

No one knows when such a custom first came into existence.

Furigana

あんな習慣(しゅうかん)が最初(さいしょ)にいつ生(う)まれたのかは誰(だれ)にもわからない。

Romanji

Anna shūkan ga saisho ni i tsu umareta no ka wa dare ni mo wakaranai.

Words

あんな (あんな)

such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of

習慣 (しゅうかん)

habit; custom; cultural practice

が (が)

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

最初 (さいしょ)

beginning; outset; first; onset

に (に)

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

要る (いる)

to need; to want

つ (つ)

indicates two contrasting actions; indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)

生まれる (うまれる)

to be born

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

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

は (は)

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

誰 (だれ、たれ、た)

who

も (も)

too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence); both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence); even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than; even if; even though; although; in spite of; further; more; again; another; the other

分かる (わかる)

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out