あなたの電話が鳴ったときまさに出かけようとするところだった。

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

telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone

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

to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble

regular (stops at every station) Jouetsu-line Shinkansen

exactly; surely; certainly; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening); duly; naturally

to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to start; to set out; to be about to leave; to be just going out

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

place; spot; scene; site; address; district; area; locality; one's house; point; part; space; room; whereupon; as a result; about to; on the verge of; was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative