あなたはキョクアジサシという鳥のことを聞いたことがありますか。

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あなた キョクアジサシ という こと 聞いた こと あります

English Translation

Have you heard of a bird called the Arctic Tern?

Furigana

あなたはキョクアジサシという(とり)のことを()いたことがありますか。

Romanji

Anata wa Kyokuajisashi toiu tori no koto o kiita 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)
()
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
極鰺刺 (きょくあじさし、キョクアジサシ)
Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)
と言う (という、とゆう)
called; named; as many as; as much as; all X; every X
(とり)
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
()
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
(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
()
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.
聞く (きく)
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to query; to learn of; to hear about; to follow (advice); to comply with; to smell (esp. incense); to sample fragrance
()
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
()
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

Readings: チョウ、 とり
Meanings: bird, chicken
Readings: ブン、 モン、 き.く、 き.こえる
Meanings: hear, ask, listen