昨日、ひょんなことで父親の戸籍抄本のコピーを見てしまいました。

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English Translation

Yesterday I stumbled across a copy of my father's family register.

Furigana

昨日(きのう)、ひょんなことで父親(ちちおや)の戸籍(こせき)抄本(しょうほん)のコピーを見(み)てしまいました。

Romanji

Kinō, hyonna koto de chichioya no koseki shōhon no kopi- o miteshimaimashita.

Words

昨日 (きのう、さくじつ)

yesterday

ひょんな (ひょんな)

strange; unexpected; (by) chance; unusual; curious

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

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

父親 (ちちおや)

father

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

戸籍 (こせき)

family register; census

抄本 (しょうほん)

excerpt; abridgment; book of selections

コピー (コピー)

copy; photocopy; blurb on a book jacket; catch copy

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.

見る (みる)

to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe; to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge; to look after; to keep an eye on; to take care of; to view (e.g. flowers, movie); to try; to try out; to see that...; to find that...