問題は誰が決定を下すかということだ。

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問題は誰が決定を下すかということだ。

English Translation

The question is who will make the decision.

Furigana

問題(もんだい)は誰(だれ)が決定(けってい)を下(くだ)すかということだ。

Romanji

Mondai wa dare ga kettei o kudasu ka 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

誰 (だれ、たれ、た)

who

が (が)

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

決定 (けってい)

decision; determination

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.

下す (くだす)

to make (a decision); to pass (judgement, etc.); to hand down (orders, etc.); to let go down; to lower; to do oneself; to do by oneself

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

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