昔は、悪いことをすると、学校の先生から平手をくらったり拳固をもらうことが当たり前だった。

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English Translation

In the past it was perfectly normal to get the back of a teacher's hand or fist as punishment.

Furigana

昔(むかし)は、悪(わる)いことをすると、学校(がっこう)の先生(せんせい)から平手(ひらて)をくらったり拳固(げんこ)をもらうことが当(あ)たり前(まえ)だった。

Romanji

Mukashi wa, warui koto o suru to, gakkō no sensei kara hirate o kura tari genko o morau koto ga atarimae datta.

Words

昔 (むかし)

olden days; former

は (は)

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

悪い (わるい)

bad; poor; inferior; evil; sinful; unprofitable; unbeneficial; at fault; to blame; in the wrong; sorry

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

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.

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

と (と)

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

学校 (がっこう)

school

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

先生 (せんせい、せんじょう)

teacher; master; doctor; with names of teachers, etc. as an honorific; previous existence

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

平手 (ひらて)

palm; open hand; equality; lack of handicap (e.g. in a game)

食らう (くらう)

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow)

たり (たり、だり)

-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); (used adverbially) doing such things as...; expresses a command; (after a noun) to be; indicates completion or continuation of an action

拳固 (げんこ)

fist

貰う (もらう)

to receive; to take; to accept; to get somebody to do something

が (が)

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

当たり前 (あたりまえ)

natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary; commonplace; the norm

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative