日本人の半数はストレスの多い生活をしている。

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English Translation

Half of the Japanese people lead stressful lives.

Furigana

日本人(にっぽんじん)の半数(はんすう)はストレスの多(おお)い生活(せいかつ)をしている。

Romanji

Nipponjin no hansū wa sutoresu no ōi seikatsu o shiteiru.

Words

日本人 (にほんじん、にっぽんじん)

Japanese person; Japanese people

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

半数 (はんすう)

half the number; haploid

は (は)

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

ストレス (ストレス)

stress

多い (おおい)

many; numerous

生活 (せいかつ)

living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood

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