あの事故がいつ起こったのかしっていますか。

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English Translation

Do you know what time that accident happened?

Furigana

あの事故(じこ)がいつ起(お)こったのかしっていますか。

Romanji

Ano jiko ga i tsu okotta no ka shitteimasu ka.

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)

事故 (じこ、ことゆえ)

accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons

が (が)

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

居る (いる)

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)

つ (つ)

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

起こる (おこる)

to occur; to happen

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

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

Kanji

事

Readings: ジ、ズ、こと、つか.う、つか.える

Meanings: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly

故

Readings: コ、ゆえ、ふる.い、もと

Meanings: happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently

起

Readings: キ、お.きる、お.こる、お.こす、おこ.す、た.つ

Meanings: rouse, wake up, get up