「昨日あの授業の講義を聞いていましたか」と学生がたずねた。

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English Translation

"Did you hear the lecture in that class yesterday?" asked the student.

Furigana

「昨日(きのう)あの授業(じゅぎょう)の講義(こうぎ)を聞(き)いていましたか」と学生(がくせい)がたずねた。

Romanji

" kinō ano jugyō no kōgi o kiiteimashita ka" to gakusei ga tazuneta.

Words

昨日 (きのう、さくじつ)

yesterday

彼の (あの、かの)

that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)

授業 (じゅぎょう)

lesson; class work; teaching; instruction

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

講義 (こうぎ)

lecture

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.

聞く (きく)

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to query; to learn of; to hear about; to follow (advice); to comply with; to smell (esp. incense); to sample fragrance

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

と (と)

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

学生 (がくせい)

student (esp. a university student)

が (が)

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

尋ねる (たずねる)

to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into; to investigate