読書は知性を発展させることができる。

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読書は知性を発展させることができる。

English Translation

Reading can develop your mind.

Furigana

読書(どくしょ)は知性(ちせい)を発展(はってん)させることができる。

Romanji

Dokusho wa chisei o hattensaseru koto ga dekiru.

Words

読書 (どくしょ、とくしょ)

reading

は (は)

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

知性 (ちせい)

intelligence

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.

発展 (はってん)

development; growth; advancement; unfurling; expansion; extension; enlargement; playing around; having an active sex life

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

が (が)

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

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant