あの役人たちは全然、財政のことはわかっていない。

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English Translation

Those officials don't understand finance at all.

Furigana

あの役人(やくにん)たちは全然(ぜんぜん)、財政(ざいせい)のことはわかっていない。

Romanji

Ano yakunintachi wa zenzen, zaisei no koto wa wakatteinai.

Words

彼の (あの、かの)

that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)

は (は)

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

全然 (ぜんぜん)

not at all (with neg. verb); wholly; entirely; completely

財政 (ざいせい)

financial affairs; public finance

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

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

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