夕方近く雨が降りだした。

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夕方 近く 降りだした

English Translation

It came on to rain toward evening.

Furigana

夕方(ゆうがた)(ちか)(あめ)()りだした。

Romanji

Yūgata chikaku ame ga furidashita.

Words

夕方 (ゆうがた)
evening; dusk
近く (ちかく)
near; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearly (i.e. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
(あめ)
rain
()
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

Readings: セキ、 ゆう
Meaning: evening
Readings: ホウ、 かた、 -かた、 -がた
Meanings: direction, person, alternative
Readings: キン、 コン、 ちか.い
Meanings: near, early, akin, tantamount
Readings: ウ、 あめ、 あま-、 -さめ
Meaning: rain
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