あなたは英字新聞を定期購読したことがありますか。

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English Translation

Have you ever subscribed to any English language newspaper?

Furigana

あなたは英字(えいじ)新聞(しんぶん)を定期(ていき)購読(こうどく)したことがありますか。

Romanji

Anata wa eiji shinbun o teiki kōdokushita koto ga arimasu 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

英字 (えいじ)

English letter; alphabetic character

新聞 (しんぶん)

newspaper

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.

定期 (ていき)

fixed period; fixed term; regular; periodic; periodical; fixed-term commutation pass; fixed-term deposit; futures contracts

購読 (こうどく)

paid subscription (e.g. magazine)

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

が (が)

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

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

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