地下鉄運賃が２ＯＯ１年４月１日からほぼ１１％値上げになります。

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English Translation

Subway fares will be raised by nearly ten percent as of April 1, 2001.

Furigana

地下鉄(ちかてつ)運賃(うんちん)が２ＯＯ１年(ねん)４月(しがつ)１日(にち)からほぼ１１％値上(ねあ)げになります。

Romanji

Chikatetsu unchin ga ni ichi nen shigatsu ichi nichi kara hobo ichi ichi pa-sento neage ni narimasu.

Words

地下鉄 (ちかてつ)

underground train; subway

運賃 (うんちん)

(passenger) fare; freight rates; shipping expenses

が (が)

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

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

一 (いち)

one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)

年 (とし)

year; many years; age; past one's prime; old age

四月 (しがつ)

April

日 (にち)

Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

略 (ほぼ)

almost; roughly; approximately

値上げ (ねあげ)

price hike; mark-up

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

成る (なる)

to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain; to result in; to prove to be; to consist of; to be composed of; to succeed; to be complete; to change into; to be exchanged for; to play a role; to be promoted; to do ...