予想されたことだが、彼らはコンテストに敗れた。
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English Translation
As was expected, they lost the contest.
Furigana
Romanji
Yosōsareta koto da ga, karera wa kontesuto ni yabureta.
Words
予想
(よそう)
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
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
だ
(だ)
be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative
が
(が)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
彼ら
(かれら)
they (usually male); them
は
(は)
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
コンテスト
(コンテスト)
contest
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
敗れる
(やぶれる)
to be defeated; to be beaten; to be unsuccessful; to lose