彼は朝食前に水をコップ１杯飲むことにしています。

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彼は朝食前に水をこっぷ１杯飲むことにしています。

English Translation

He makes it a rule to drink a glass of water before breakfast.

Furigana

彼(かれ)は朝(あさ)食前(しょくぜん)に水(みず)をコップ１杯(はい)飲(の)むことにしています。

Romanji

Kare wa asa shokuzen ni mizu o koppu ichi hai nomu koto ni shiteimasu.

Words

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

は (は)

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

朝 (あさ、あした)

morning

食前 (しょくぜん)

before meals

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

水 (みず、み)

water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout; break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout

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.

コップ (コップ)

glass (i.e. drinking vessel); tumbler; cop (police officer)

一 (いち)

one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)

杯 (はい、はた)

sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls; counter for ships, octopuses and squid

飲む (のむ)

to drink; to gulp; to swallow; to take (medicine); to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress; to accept (e.g. demand, condition); to make light of; to conceal

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

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