あなたがメールの山に埋もれているのは知っていますが、私が先週送ったメールの返事をお願いできませんでしょうか。

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English Translation

I know you must be buried in your mountain of mails, but I wonder if I can hear from you regarding the mail I sent you last week?

Furigana

あなたがメールの山(やま)に埋(うず)もれているのは知(し)っていますが、私(わたし)が先週(せんしゅう)送(おく)ったメールの返事(へんじ)をお願(ねが)いできませんでしょうか。

Romanji

Anata ga me-ru no yama ni uzumoreteiru no wa shitteimasu ga, watashi ga senshū okutta me-ru no henji o onegai dekimasen deshō ka.

Words

貴方 (あなた)

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

が (が)

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

メール (メール、メイル、メェル)

email; mail (usu. in phrases and compound words); male

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

山 (やま)

mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw); tread (of a tire); protruding part of an object; climax; peak; critical point; guess; speculation; criminal case; crime; mountain climbing; mountaineering; festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd); wall; wall tile; temple; temple grounds; wild

に (に)

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

埋もれる (うもれる、うずもれる、うづもれる)

to be buried; to be covered; to be hidden

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

知る (しる)

to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure); to experience; to go through; to learn; to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know; to concern

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

先週 (せんしゅう)

last week; the week before

送る (おくる)

to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time); to live one's life; to pass (down the line); to affix okurigana

返事 (へんじ)

reply; answer; response

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.

お願い (おねがい)

request; wish; please

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant

デス (デス)

death

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