事の真相が彼に少しずつ飲み込めてきた。

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事の真相が彼に少しずつ飲み込めてきた。

English Translation

The truth of the matter is dawning on him.

Furigana

事(こと)の真相(しんそう)が彼(かれ)に少(すこ)しずつ飲(の)み込(こ)めてきた。

Romanji

Koto no shinsō ga kare ni sukoshi zutsu nomikometekita.

Words

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

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

真相 (しんそう)

truth; real situation

が (が)

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

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

少し (すこし)

small quantity; little; few; something; little while; short distance

ずつ (ずつ、づつ)

apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal