紫外線は皮膚癌を引き起こすことがある。

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紫外線は皮膚癌を引き起こすことがある。

English Translation

Ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer.

Furigana

紫外線(しがいせん)は皮膚(ひふ)癌(がん)を引(ひ)き起(お)こすことがある。

Romanji

Shigaisen wa hifu gan o hikiokosu koto ga aru.

Words

紫外線 (しがいせん)

ultra-violet rays

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

皮膚 (ひふ、ひフ)

skin

癌 (がん)

cancer

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.

引き起こす (ひきおこす)

to cause; to induce; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)

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

が (が)

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

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about