選ぶべき道は自由か死だ。

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選ぶべき道は自由か死だ。

English Translation

The alternatives are liberty and death.

Furigana

選(えら)ぶべき道(みち)は自由(じゆう)か死(し)だ。

Romanji

Erabu beki michi wa jiyū ka shi da.

Words

選ぶ (えらぶ)

to choose; to select

可し (べし)

shall; should; must

道 (みち)

road; street; way; path; course; route; lane; distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways"); the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals; teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma; field (of medicine, etc.); subject; way; method; means

は (は)

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

自由 (じゆう)

freedom; liberty; as it pleases you

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

死 (し)

death; decease; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation)

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative