突然雨が激しく降り始めた。

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突然 雨 が 激しく 降り始めた 。

English Translation

Suddenly it started to rain very hard.

Furigana

突然(とつぜん)雨(あめ)が激(はげ)しく降(お)り始(はじ)めた。

Romanji

Totsuzen ame ga hageshiku orihajimeta.

Words

突然 (とつぜん)

abrupt; sudden; unexpected; all at once

雨 (あめ)

rain

が (が)

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

激しい (はげしい)

violent; furious; tempestuous; extreme; intense; fierce; fervent; vehement; incessant; relentless; precipitous; steep

降りる (おりる)

to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to come down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to disembark; to dismount; to step down; to retire; to give up; to quit; to be granted; to be issued; to be given; to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.); to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm)

Kanji

突

Readings: トツ、 カ、 つ.く

Meanings: stab, protruding, thrust, pierce, prick, collision, sudden

然

Readings: ゼン、 ネン、 しか、 しか.り、 しか.し、 さ

Meanings: sort of thing, so, if so, in that case, well

雨

Readings: ウ、 あめ、 あま-、 -さめ

Meaning: rain

激

Readings: ゲキ、 はげ.しい

Meanings: violent, get excited, enraged, chafe, incite

降

Readings: コウ、 ゴ、 お.りる、 お.ろす、 ふ.る、 ふ.り、 くだ.る、 くだ.す

Meanings: descend, precipitate, fall, surrender

始

Readings: シ、 はじ.める、 -はじ.める、 はじ.まる

Meanings: commence, begin