水道料金を滞納すると給水を停止されるということをお聞きしましたが本当ですか？

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English Translation

I've heard that if you default on the water rates your water supply will be suspended, is that true?

Furigana

水道(すいどう)料金(りょうきん)を滞納(たいのう)すると給水(きゅうすい)を停止(ていし)されるということをお聞(き)きしましたが本当(ほんとう)ですか？

Romanji

Suidō ryōkin o tainōsuru to kyūsui o teishisareru toiu koto o o kiki shimashita ga hontō desu ka?

Words

水道 (すいどう)

water service; water supply

料金 (りょうきん)

fee; charge; fare

を (を)

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.

滞納 (たいのう)

non-payment; default

と (と)

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

給水 (きゅうすい)

water supply

停止 (ていし、ちょうじ)

suspension; interruption; stoppage; ban; standstill; halt; hang-up; deadlock; stalemate; abeyance; suspension of music, dance, etc. as a sign of mourning for a prominent person

と言う (という、とゆう)

called; named; as many as; as much as; all X; every X

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

御 (お、おん)

honorific/polite/humble prefix

聞く (きく)

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to query; to learn of; to hear about; to follow (advice); to comply with; to smell (esp. incense); to sample fragrance

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

が (が)

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

本当 (ほんとう、ほんと)

truth; reality; actuality; fact; proper; right; correct; official; genuine; authentic; natural; veritable

です (です)

be; is

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