日本経済では、大きなひずみが進行しつつある。

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English Translation

The Japanese economy is going through a period of great stress.

Furigana

日本(にっぽん)経済(けいざい)では、大(おお)きなひずみが進行(しんこう)しつつある。

Romanji

Nippon keizai de wa, ōkina hizumi ga shinkōshi tsutsu aru.

Words

日本 (にほん、にっぽん)

Japan

経済 (けいざい)

economics; business; finance; economy

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

は (は)

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

大きな (おおきな)

big; large; great

歪む (ゆがむ、いがむ、ひずむ)

to warp; to swerve; to deflect; to be crooked; to be distorted; to be bent; to incline; to slant; to be perverted; to be gross-grained; to get bent; to be strained

が (が)

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

進行 (しんこう)

moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement; advance (work, procedure, etc); advancement; progress; progress (of a disease); disease progression; progression (harmonic, melodic)

つつ (つつ)

while; even though; despite

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about