道はどろんこであった。その上悪いことには雨が降りだした。

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English Translation

The road was quite muddy, and, what is worse, it began to rain.

Furigana

道(みち)はどろんこであった。その上(うえ)悪(わる)いことには雨(あめ)が降(ふ)りだした。

Romanji

Michi wa doronko de atta. sono ue warui koto ni wa ame ga furidashita.

Words

道 (みち)

road; street; way; path; course; route; lane; distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways"); the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals; teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma; field (of medicine, etc.); subject; way; method; means

は (は)

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

泥んこ (どろんこ)

muddy state; mud

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

其の (その)

that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the; um...; er...; uh...

上 (うえ)

above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter); top; summit; surface; on; before; previous; superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder); on top of that; besides; what's more; upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after); matters concerning...; as concerns ...; since (i.e. "for that reason"); suffix indicating higher social standing; place of one's superior (i.e. the throne); emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo; noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman)

悪い (わるい)

bad; poor; inferior; evil; sinful; unprofitable; unbeneficial; at fault; to blame; in the wrong; sorry

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

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

雨 (あめ)

rain

が (が)

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

下る (くだる)

to descend; to go down; to come down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; (often in neg. form) to be less than; to be inferior to; to have the runs; to have diarrhea

Kanji

道

Readings: ドウ、トウ、みち

Meanings: road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings

上

Readings: ジョウ、ショウ、シャン、うえ、 -うえ、うわ-、かみ、あ.げる、 -あ.げる、あ.がる、 -あ.がる、あ.がり、 -あ.がり、のぼ.る、のぼ.り、のぼ.せる、のぼ.す、よ.す

Meanings: above, up

悪

Readings: アク、オ、わる.い、わる-、あ.し、にく.い、 -にく.い、ああ、いずくに、いずくんぞ、にく.む

Meanings: bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong

雨

Readings: ウ、あめ、あま-、 -さめ

Meaning: rain

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