自画像を描くとき、誰でも座ってじっと自分を見つめます。

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English Translation

When you paint a self-portrait, you sit staring hard at yourself.

Furigana

自画像(じがぞう)を描(えが)くとき、誰(だれ)でも座(すわ)ってじっと自分(じぶん)を見(み)つめます。

Romanji

Jigazō o egaku toki, dare demo suwatte jitto jibun o mitsumemasu.

Words

自画像 (じがぞう)

self-portrait

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.

描く (えがく、かく)

to draw; to paint; to sketch; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine; to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)

とき (とき)

regular (stops at every station) Jouetsu-line Shinkansen

誰 (だれ、たれ、た)

who

でも (でも)

but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; even; however; no matter how; even if; even though; ... or something; either ... or ...; neither ... nor ...; pseudo-; quack; in-name-only; for lack of anything better to do

座る (すわる)

to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still

凝乎と (じっと、じーっと、じーと、じいっと)

motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still; fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think); patiently (endure); stoically; firmly (e.g. hold); restrained

自分 (じぶん)

myself; yourself; oneself; himself; herself; I; me; you

見つめる (みつめる)

to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on