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Zach

友達を見ることによってどんな人かわかる。

Sentence Analyzer

友達 見る こと によって どんな わかる

English Translation

You can tell what a person is like by looking at his friends.

Furigana

友達(ともだち)()ることによってどんな(ひと)かわかる。

Romanji

Tomodachi o miru koto niyotte donna hito ka wakaru.

Words

友達 (ともだち)
friend; companion
()
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
見る (みる)
to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe; to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge; to look after; to keep an eye on; to take care of; to view (e.g. flowers, movie); to try; to try out; to see that...; to find that...
(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
に因って (によって)
according to; by (means of); due to; because of
どんな (どんな)
what; what kind of; (with -temo, demo, etc.) any(body, thing, means, etc.)
(ひと、ヒト)
man; person; human being; mankind; people; human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species; character; personality; man of talent; true man; another person; other people; others; adult
()
indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way
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

Kanji

Readings: ユウ、 とも
Meaning: friend
Readings: タツ、 ダ、 -たち
Meanings: accomplished, reach, arrive, attain
Readings: ケン、 み.る、 み.える、 み.せる
Meanings: see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible
Readings: ジン、 ニン、 ひと、 -り、 -と
Meaning: person