１５年前に卒業して以来私は昔の級友に会ったことがない。

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English Translation

Since graduation fifteen years ago I have never run into my former classmates.

Furigana

１５年(ねん)前(まえ)に卒業(そつぎょう)して以来(いらい)私(わたし)は昔(むかし)の級友(きゅうゆう)に会(あ)ったことがない。

Romanji

Ichi go nen mae ni sotsugyōshite irai watashi wa mukashi no kyūyū ni atta koto ga nai.

Words

一 (いち)

one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)

五 (ご、いつ、い)

five

年 (とし)

year; many years; age; past one's prime; old age

前 (まえ)

ago; before (some event); previously; (minutes) to (the hour); in front (of); before (e.g. the house); head (of a line); front (e.g. of a bus); fore part; in the presence of; helping; portion; privates; private parts

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

卒業 (そつぎょう)

graduation; completion (e.g. of a course); outgrowing something; moving on

以来 (いらい)

since; henceforth

私 (わたし、わたくし)

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

は (は)

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

昔 (むかし)

olden days; former

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

級友 (きゅうゆう)

classmate

会う (あう)

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

事 (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

が (が)

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

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...