二隻の船が同時に沈んだ。

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二隻の船が同時に沈んだ。

English Translation

The two ships went down at once.

Furigana

二(に)隻(せき)の船(ふね)が同時(どうじ)に沈(しず)んだ。

Romanji

Ni seki no fune ga dōjini shizunda.

Words

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

隻 (せき)

counter for ships (large boats); counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen); counter for fish, birds, arrows, etc.

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

船 (ふね)

ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship; tank; tub; vat; trough; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

が (が)

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

同時に (どうじに)

coincident with; while; simultaneously

沈む (しずむ)

to sink; to go under; to submerge; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend; to feel depressed