手塚治虫の本を１週間くらい貸してくれますか。

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English Translation

Will you lend me the books by Osame Tezuka for about a week?

Furigana

手塚(てづか)治虫(おさむ)の本(ほん)を１週間(しゅうかん)くらい貸(か)してくれますか。

Romanji

Tezuka Osamu no hon o ichi shūkan kurai kashitekuremasu ka.

Words

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

本 (ほん)

book; volume; script; this; present; main; head; real; regular; counter for long cylindrical things; counter for films, TV shows, etc.; counter for goals, home runs, etc.; counter for telephone calls

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.

一 (いち)

one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)

週間 (しゅうかん)

week; weekly

くらい (くらい、ぐらい)

approximately; about; around; or so; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; so ... that ...; at least; as ... as ...; like

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