あの家は私のおばあさんが小さい時に住んでいた丘の上にあってひなぎくに囲まれまわりにりんごの木が植わっていた家にとてもよく似ている。

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English Translation

That little house looks just like the little house my grandmother lived in when she was a little girl, on a hill covered with daisies and apple trees growing around.

Furigana

あの家(いえ)は私(わたし)のおばあさんが小(ちい)さい時(とき)に住(す)んでいた丘(おか)の上(うえ)にあってひなぎくに囲(かこ)まれまわりにりんごの木(き)が植(う)わっていた家(いえ)にとてもよく似(に)ている。

Romanji

Ano ie wa watashi no obāsan ga chiisai tokini sundeita oka no ueni atte hina giku ni kakomare mawari ni ringo no ki ga uwatteita ie ni totemo yoku niteiru.

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)

家 (いえ)

house; residence; dwelling; family; household; lineage; family name

は (は)

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

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

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

お祖母さん (おばあさん)

grandmother; female senior-citizen

が (が)

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

小さい (ちいさい)

small; little; tiny

時に (ときに)

by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally

住む (すむ)

to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide

丘 (おか)

hill; height; knoll; rising ground; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about

雛 (ひよこ、ひな、ひよっこ、ヒナ)

young bird; chick; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival; green; wet behind the ears; juvenile

疑懼 (ぎく)

apprehension; uneasiness

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

囲む (かこむ、かごむ)

to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fence; to wall in; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)

周り (まわり)

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

林檎 (りんご、へいか、ひょうか、りゅうごう、りんきん、りんき、リンゴ)

apple (fruit); apple tree (Malus pumila)

木 (き)

tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber

植わる (うわる)

to be planted

迚も (とても、とっても)

very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)