日本では看護婦さんは社会的地位が高いのですか。

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English Translation

In Japan, are nurses high on the social scale?

Furigana

日本(にっぽん)では看護婦(かんごふ)さんは社会的(しゃかいてき)地位(ちい)が高(たか)いのですか。

Romanji

Nippon de wa kangofu san wa shakaiteki chii ga takai no desu ka.

Words

日本 (にほん、にっぽん)

Japan

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

は (は)

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

看護婦 (かんごふ)

(female) nurse

さん (さん)

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san; makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions)

社会的 (しゃかいてき)

social

地位 (ちい)

(social) position; status

が (が)

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

高い (たかい)

high; tall; expensive

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

です (です)

be; is

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way