社員の半分が休暇を１日取った。

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社員の半分が休暇を１日取った。

English Translation

Half the office took a day off.

Furigana

社員(しゃいん)の半分(はんぶん)が休暇(きゅうか)を１日(にち)取(と)った。

Romanji

Shain no hanbun ga kyūka o ichi nichi totta.

Words

社員 (しゃいん)

company employee; company stockholders (esp. in legal contexts); members of a corporation

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

半分 (はんぶん)

half

が (が)

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

休暇 (きゅうか)

holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)

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.)

日 (にち)

Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan

取る (とる)

to take; to pick up; to harvest; to earn; to win; to choose; to steal; to eat; to have (a meal); to remove (one's glasses, etc.); to compete (in sumo, cards, etc.); to play