友達がいないと言うことがどんなことかは、子供でさえ知っている。

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English Translation

Even a child knows what it is like to be without friends.

Furigana

友達(ともだち)がいないと言(い)うことがどんなことかは、子供(こども)でさえ知(し)っている。

Romanji

Tomodachi ga inai to iu koto ga donna koto ka wa, kodomo de sae shitteiru.

Words

友達 (ともだち)

friend; companion

が (が)

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

居る (いる)

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

言う (いう、ゆう)

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

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

どんな (どんな)

what; what kind of; (with -temo, demo, etc.) any(body, thing, means, etc.)

か (か)

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

は (は)

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

子供 (こども)

child; children

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

さえ (さえ)

even; if only; if just; as long as; the only thing needed

知る (しる)

to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure); to experience; to go through; to learn; to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know; to concern