朝起きて、挨拶を交わす相手がいる——久しぶりの感覚だ。

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朝起きて、挨拶を交わす相手がいる —— 久しぶりの感覚だ。

English Translation

To get up in the morning, and there be someone to say good morning to - I haven't had this feeling for a long time.

Furigana

朝(あさ)起(お)きて、挨拶(あいさつ)を交(か)わす相手(あいて)がいる——久(ひさ)しぶりの感覚(かんかく)だ。

Romanji

Asa okite, aisatsu o kawasu aite ga iru hisashiburi no kankaku da.

Words

朝 (あさ、あした)

morning

起きる (おきる)

to get up; to rise; to blaze up (fire); to wake up; to be awake; to stay awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen; to take place

挨拶 (あいさつ)

greeting; greetings; salutation; salute; polite set phrase used when meeting or parting from somebody; polite set phrase used to express apology, sympathy, congratulations, etc.; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge; retaliation; a fine thing to say (used as part of a sarcastic response to a rude remark); dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment)

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.

交わす (かわす)

to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; to interlace; ... with one another; ... to each other

相手 (あいて)

companion; partner; company; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)

が (が)

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

居る (いる)

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)

久しぶり (ひさしぶり)

a long time (since the last time); it's been a while (since I last saw, mailed, etc., you)

の (の)

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

感覚 (かんかく)

sense; sensation; feeling; intuition

だ (だ)

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