食べるのにどうしてそんなに手間がかかるのか。

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食べる のに どうして そんなに 手間 かかる

English Translation

Why do you take so long to eat?

Furigana

()べるのにどうしてそんなに手間(てま)がかかるのか。

Romanji

Taberu noni dōshite sonnani tema ga kakaru no ka.

Words

食べる (たべる)
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
のに (のに)
although; when; and yet; despite this; in spite of; even though; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless; for all that; notwithstanding that; while; if only; I wish; I tell you; you should do; in order to
如何して (どうして)
why?; for what reason; how; in what way; for what purpose; what for
そんなに (そんなに)
so much; so; like that
手間 (てま)
time; labour; labor
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
掛かる (かかる)
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend; to deal with; to handle; to have started to; to be on the verge of; to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover; to (come) at; to be fastened; to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.); to be caught in; to get a call; to depend on
()
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
()
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

Kanji

Readings: ショク、 ジキ、 く.う、 く.らう、 た.べる、 は.む
Meanings: eat, food
Readings: シュ、 ズ、 て、 て-、 -て、 た-
Meaning: hand
Readings: カン、 ケン、 あいだ、 ま、 あい
Meanings: interval, space