あなたは、あの分厚い本を読んだのですか。

Sentence Analyzer

あなた は 、 あの 分厚い 本 を 読んだ の です か 。

English Translation

Did you read that thick book?

Furigana

あなたは、あの分厚(ぶあつ)い本(ほん)を読(よ)んだのですか。

Romanji

Anata wa, ano buatsui hon o yonda no desu ka.

Words

貴方 (あなた)

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

は (は)

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

彼の (あの、かの)

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

分厚い (ぶあつい)

bulky; massive; thick; heavy

本 (ほん)

book; volume; script; this; present; main; head; real; regular; counter for long cylindrical things; counter for films, TV shows, etc.; counter for goals, home runs, etc.; counter for telephone calls

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.

読む (よむ)

to read; to count; to guess; to predict; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine

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

です (です)

be; is

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

Kanji

分

Readings: ブン、 フン、 ブ、 わ.ける、 わ.け、 わ.かれる、 わ.かる、 わ.かつ

Meanings: part, minute of time, segment, share, degree, one's lot, duty, understand, know, rate, 1%, chances, shaku/100

厚

Readings: コウ、 あつ.い、 あか

Meanings: thick, heavy, rich, kind, cordial, brazen, shameless

本

Readings: ホン、 もと

Meanings: book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things

読

Readings: ドク、 トク、 トウ、 よ.む、 -よ.み

Meaning: read