問題は僕たちが状況をまったく知らないということだ。

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English Translation

The point is that we don't know what is happening around us.

Furigana

問題(もんだい)は僕(ぼく)たちが状況(じょうきょう)をまったく知(し)らないということだ。

Romanji

Mondai wa bokutachi ga jōkyō o mattaku shiranai toiu koto da.

Words

問題 (もんだい)

question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion; controversy; trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty

は (は)

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

僕達 (ぼくたち)

が (が)

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

状況 (じょうきょう)

state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances

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.

全く (まったく)

really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly; perfectly; indeed; good grief (expression of exasperation)

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

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

だ (だ)

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