曾祖父の代から東京に住んでいます。

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曾祖父の代から東京に住んでいます。

English Translation

My family came to live in Tokyo in my great-grandfather's time.

Furigana

曾祖父(そうそふ)の代(だい)から東京(とうきょう)に住(す)んでいます。

Romanji

Sōsofu no dai kara Tōkyō ni sundeimasu.

Words

曾祖父 (そうそふ、ひいじじ、ひじじ、ひおおじ)

great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad

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

代 (だい)

charge; cost; price; generation; age; reign; era; a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone); used after a phone number to indicate that it is a switchboard number; counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.; counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.); proxy application company; pronoun

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

東京 (とうきょう)

Tokyo

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

住む (すむ)

to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide