貸した金が笑いながら戻ってくることはめったにない。

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English Translation

Seldom does a loan come home laughing.

Furigana

貸(か)した金(きむ)が笑(わら)いながら戻(もど)ってくることはめったにない。

Romanji

Kashita Kimu ga warai nagara modottekuru koto wa mettani nai.

Words

貸す (かす)

to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out

金 (かね、かな)

money; metal

が (が)

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

笑う (わらう)

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

乍ら (ながら)

while; during; as; while; although; though; despite; in spite of; notwithstanding; all; both; as (e.g. "as always", "as long ago"); in (e.g. "in tears")

戻る (もどる)

to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound; to spring back

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

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

滅多に (めったに)

rarely; seldom

ない (ない)

not; emphatic suffix