労働者は、給料の値上げやより良い労働条件を求めて、ストライキをすることができる。

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English Translation

Workers can go on strike for higher wages, or for better working conditions.

Furigana

労働者(ろうどうしゃ)は、給料(きゅうりょう)の値上(ねあ)げやより良(よ)い労働(ろうどう)条件(じょうけん)を求(もと)めて、ストライキをすることができる。

Romanji

Rōdōsha wa, kyūryō no neage ya yori yoi rōdō jōken o motomete, sutoraiki o suru koto ga dekiru.

Words

労働者 (ろうどうしゃ)

employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker

は (は)

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

給料 (きゅうりょう)

salary; wages

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

値上げ (ねあげ)

price hike; mark-up

や (や)

such things as (non-exhaustive list related to a specific time and place); and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; punctuational exclamation in haiku, renga, etc.; interjection expressing surprise; hi; plain copula; yes; what?; indicates a question

より (より)

than; from; out of; since; at; on; except; but; other than; more

良い (よい)

good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable; sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared; profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial; OK

労働 (ろうどう)

manual labor; manual labour; toil; work; Labour Party

条件 (じょうけん)

condition; conditions; term; terms; requirement; requirements

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.

求める (もとめる)

to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for; to pursue (pleasure); to hunt (a job); to purchase; to buy

ストライキ (ストライキ)

strike (i.e. industrial action)

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

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

が (が)

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

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant