年配の人にはよくあることですが、祖父は早寝早起きをします。

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English Translation

As is often the case with old people, my grandfather keeps early hours.

Furigana

年配(ねんぱい)の人(ひと)にはよくあることですが、祖父(そふ)は早寝(はやね)早起(はやお)きをします。

Romanji

Nenpai no hito ni wa yoku aru koto desu ga, sofu wa hayane hayaoki o shimasu.

Words

年配 (ねんぱい)

elderly; age; years

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

人 (ひと、ヒト)

man; person; human being; mankind; people; human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species; character; personality; man of talent; true man; another person; other people; others; adult

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

は (は)

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

良く (よく)

nicely; properly; well; skillfully; skilfully; frequently; often

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

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

です (です)

be; is

が (が)

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

祖父 (そふ、じじ、じい、おおじ、おじ、そぶ)

grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man

早寝 (はやね)

go to bed early

早起き (はやおき)

early rising

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