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Zach

里さんって文学が上手ですか。

Sentence Analyzer

さん って 文学 上手 です

English Translation

Is Mr Sato good at literature?

Furigana

(さと)さんって文学(ぶんがく)上手(じょうず)ですか。

Romanji

Sato san tte bungaku ga jōzu desu ka.

Words

(さと)
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
さん (さん)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san; makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions)
って (って、て)
casual quoting particle; indicates supposition; if ... then; indicates a rhetorical question; indicates certainty, insistence, etc.
文学 (ぶんがく)
literature
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
上手 (じょうず、じょうて、じょうしゅ)
skill; skillful; dexterity; flattery
です (です)
be; is
()
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

Readings: リ、 さと
Meanings: ri, village, parent's home, league
Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや
Meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)
Readings: ガク、 まな.ぶ
Meanings: study, learning, science
Readings: ジョウ、 ショウ、 シャン、 うえ、 -うえ、 うわ-、 かみ、 あ.げる、 -あ.げる、 あ.がる、 -あ.がる、 あ.がり、 -あ.がり、 のぼ.る、 のぼ.り、 のぼ.せる、 のぼ.す、 よ.す
Meanings: above, up
Readings: シュ、 ズ、 て、 て-、 -て、 た-
Meaning: hand