探偵が事件の本当のことが分かるまで半年かかった。

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English Translation

The detective took six months to get at the truth of that affair.

Furigana

探偵(たんてい)が事件(じけん)の本当(ほんとう)のことが分(わ)かるまで半年(はんとし)かかった。

Romanji

Tantei ga jiken no hontō no koto ga wakaru made hantoshi kakatta.

Words

探偵 (たんてい)

detective; sleuth; investigator

が (が)

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

事件 (じけん)

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

本当 (ほんとう、ほんと)

truth; reality; actuality; fact; proper; right; correct; official; genuine; authentic; natural; veritable

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

分かる (わかる)

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out

迄 (まで)

until (a time); till; to; up to; to (a place); as far as; to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; only; merely

半年 (はんとし、はんねん)

half year

罹る (かかる)

to suffer from