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余談だが、この念発火能力のことをパイロキネシスというらしい。

Sentence Analyzer

余談 この 発火 能力 こと パイロキネシス という らしい

English Translation

By the by, this ability to will fire into existence is apparently called pyrokinesis.

Furigana

余談(よだん)だが、この(ねん)発火(はっか)能力(のうりょく)のことをパイロキネシスというらしい。

Romanji

Yodan da ga, kono nen hakka nōryoku no koto o Pairokineshisu toiu rashii.

Words

余談 (よだん)
digression; sequel (of a story)
()
be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
此の (この)
this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)
(ねん)
sense; idea; thought; feeling; desire; concern; attention; care
発火 (はっか)
ignition; catching fire; firing (e.g. gun); discharging
能力 (のうりょく)
ability; faculty
()
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
(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
()
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.
パイロキネシス (パイロキネシス)
pyrokinesisis
と言う (という、とゆう)
called; named; as many as; as much as; all X; every X
らしい (らしい)
seeming ... (expresses judgment based on evidence, reason or trustworthy hearsay); appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...; appropriate for ...; becoming of ...; worthy of the name ...

Kanji

Readings: ヨ、 あま.る、 あま.り、 あま.す、 あんま.り
Meanings: too much, myself, surplus, other, remainder
Reading: ダン
Meanings: discuss, talk
Reading: ネン
Meanings: wish, sense, idea, thought, feeling, desire, attention
Readings: ハツ、 ホツ、 た.つ、 あば.く、 おこ.る、 つか.わす、 はな.つ
Meanings: departure, discharge, publish, emit, start from, disclose, counter for gunshots
Readings: カ、 ひ、 -び、 ほ-
Meaning: fire
Readings: ノウ、 よ.く
Meanings: ability, talent, skill, capacity
Readings: リョク、 リキ、 リイ、 ちから
Meanings: power, strength, strong, strain, bear up, exert