手伝ってくれるかい、この機械の作動の仕方が分からないんだ。

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English Translation

Can you help me? I can't make out how to start this machine.

Furigana

手伝(てつだ)ってくれるかい、この機械(きかい)の作動(さどう)の仕方(しかた)が分(わ)からないんだ。

Romanji

Tetsudattekureru kai, kono kikai no sadō no shikata ga wakaranai n da.

Words

手伝う (てつだう)

to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in

かい (かい、かえ)

marks yes-no question

此の (この)

this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)

機械 (きかい)

machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus

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

作動 (さどう)

operation; functioning; running

仕方 (しかた)

way; method; means; resource; course

が (が)

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

分かる (わかる)

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out

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")

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative