州の選挙権がかかっているので、チームのみんなは一生懸命試合をした。

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English Translation

The team played hard because the championship of the state was at stake.

Furigana

州(しゅう)の選挙権(せんきょけん)がかかっているので、チームのみんなは一生懸命(いっしょうけんめい)試合(しあい)をした。

Romanji

Shū no senkyoken ga kakatteiru node, chi-mu no minna wa isshōkenmei shiai o shita.

Words

州 (しゅう)

state; province; county; oblast; department (of ancient China); continent; dear

の (の)

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

選挙権 (せんきょけん)

suffrage; the right to vote

が (が)

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

ので (ので、んで)

that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ....; given that...

チーム (チーム、ティーム)

team

皆 (みな、みんな)

all; everyone; everybody; everything

は (は)

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

一生懸命 (いっしょうけんめい)

very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; for dear life

試合 (しあい)

match; game; bout; contest

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.

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