私達は鳥がパンくずを食べるのを見つめていました。その時、くしゃみをしたら、あっという間にその鳥は飛んでいってしまいました。

Sentence Analyzer

私達は鳥がぱんくずを食べるのを見つめていました。その時、くしゃみをしたら、あっという間にその鳥は飛んでいってしまいました。

English Translation

We were watching the bird eat the crumbs; then I sneezed, and he was gone in a flash.

Furigana

私達(わたしたち)は鳥(とり)がパンくずを食(た)べるのを見(み)つめていました。その時(とき)、くしゃみをしたら、あっという間(ま)にその鳥(とり)は飛(と)んでいってしまいました。

Romanji

Watashitachi wa tori ga pankuzu o taberu no o mitsumeteimashita. sono toki, kushami o shitara, attoiumani sono tori wa tondeitteshimaimashita.

Words

私たち (わたしたち、わたくしたち)

we; us

は (は)

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

鳥 (とり)

bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

が (が)

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

パン屑 (パンくず)

(bread) crumb

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.

食べる (たべる)

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

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

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

其の (その)

that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the; um...; er...; uh...

時 (とき)

time; hour; moment; occasion; case; chance; opportunity; season; the times; the age; the day; tense

嚏 (くしゃみ、くさめ、くっさめ、クシャミ)

sneeze; spoken twice in response to someone sneezing as a charm against an early death

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

あっという間に (あっというまに、あっとゆうまに)

just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; in the time it takes to say "ah!"

飛ぶ (とぶ)

to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spring; to bound; to hop