あなたは筆者が言っていることを理解できますか。

Sentence Analyzer

あなた は 筆者 が 言っている こと を 理解 できます か 。

English Translation

Can you make sense of what the writer is saying?

Furigana

あなたは筆者(ひっしゃ)が言(い)っていることを理解(りかい)できますか。

Romanji

Anata wa hissha ga itteiru koto o rikai dekimasu ka.

Words

貴方 (あなた)

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

は (は)

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

筆者 (ひっしゃ)

writer (often in self-reference); author

が (が)

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

言う (いう、ゆう)

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

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

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

理解 (りかい)

understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant

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

Kanji

筆

Readings: ヒツ、 ふで

Meanings: writing brush, writing, painting brush, handwriting

者

Readings: シャ、 もの

Meanings: someone, person

言

Readings: ゲン、 ゴン、 い.う、 こと

Meanings: say, word

理

Readings: リ、 ことわり

Meanings: logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth

解

Readings: カイ、 ゲ、 と.く、 と.かす、 と.ける、 ほど.く、 ほど.ける、 わか.る、 さと.る

Meanings: unravel, notes, key, explanation, understanding, untie, undo, solve, answer, cancel, absolve, explain, minute