少しお金を貸してもらえませんか。ちょうど持ち合わせが足りないんです。

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English Translation

Could you lend me some money? I'm short of cash at the moment.

Furigana

少(すこ)しお金(かね)を貸(か)してもらえませんか。ちょうど持(も)ち合(あ)わせが足(た)りないんです。

Romanji

Sukoshi okane o kashitemoraemasen ka. chōdo mochiawase ga tarinai n desu.

Words

少し (すこし)

small quantity; little; few; something; little while; short distance

お金 (おかね)

money

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.

貸す (かす)

to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out

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

丁度 (ちょうど)

just; right; exactly

持ち合わせ (もちあわせ)

things on hand; things in stock; money on hand; money in one's wallet; on hand; in stock

が (が)

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

足りる (たりる)

to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy; to be sufficient; to answer; to do

ん (ん)

yes; yeah; uh huh; negative verb ending used in informal speech (abbr. of negative verb ending "nu"); abbr. of particle "no"; abbr. of particle "ni" (used especially when it precedes the verb "naru")

です (です)

be; is