あなた自身確信のないことは決して子供に教えるな。

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English Translation

Never teach a child anything of which you are not yourself sure.

Furigana

あなた自身(じしん)確信(かくしん)のないことは決(けっ)して子供(こども)に教(おし)えるな。

Romanji

Anata jishin kakushin no nai koto wa kesshite kodomo ni oshieru na.

Words

貴方 (あなた)

you (referring to someone of equal or lower status); dear (what a wife calls a husband)

自身 (じしん)

by oneself; personally

確信 (かくしん)

conviction; belief; confidence

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

ない (ない)

not; emphatic suffix

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

は (は)

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

決して (けっして、けして)

never; by no means; not in the least; in no way

子供 (こども)

child; children

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

教える (おしえる)

to teach; to inform; to instruct

な (な)

(sentence end, mainly masc.) indicates emotion or emphasis; (used with masu stem verb) command; (used with dictionary form verb) prohibition