食糧不足が彼らをひどく空腹にした。

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食糧不足が彼らをひどく空腹にした。

English Translation

Lack of food made them very hungry.

Furigana

食糧(しょくりょう)不足(ふそく)が彼(かれ)らをひどく空腹(くうふく)にした。

Romanji

Shokuryō fusoku ga karera o hidoku kūfuku ni shita.

Words

食糧 (しょくりょう)

food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply

不足 (ふそく)

insufficiency; shortage; deficiency; lack; dearth

が (が)

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

彼ら (かれら)

they (usually male); them

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.

酷い (ひどい)

cruel; heartless; hard; harsh; severe; violent; intense; strong; heavy; extreme; very bad; terrible; awful; excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; outrageous; unfair; unjust

空腹 (くうふく)

hunger

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

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