テーブルにクッキーを置いていたら、子供たちがあっという間に食べつくしてしまった。

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English Translation

I put some cookies on the table and the kids ate them right up.

Furigana

テーブルにクッキーを置(お)いていたら、子供(こども)たちがあっという間(ま)に食(た)べつくしてしまった。

Romanji

Te-buru ni kukki- o oiteitara, kodomotachi ga attoiumani tabetsukushiteshimatta.

Words

テーブル (テーブル)

table

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

クッキー (クッキー)

cookie; biscuit; cookie (browser-related file sent from a WWW server)

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.

置く (おく)

to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ; to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc); to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool; to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house; to separate spatially or temporally; to do something in advance; to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state

子供達 (こどもたち)

children

が (が)

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

あっという間に (あっというまに、あっとゆうまに)

just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; in the time it takes to say "ah!"

食べる (たべる)

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on