あなたの努力が成功につながった。

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

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

great effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; effort

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

success; hit

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

to be tied together; to be connected to; to be linked to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)