私は食事のとり方を変えるべきですか。

Sentence Analyzer

私 は 食事 の とり方 を 変える べき です か 。

English Translation

Do I have to change my diet?

Furigana

私(わたし)は食事(しょくじ)のとり方(かた)を変(か)えるべきですか。

Romanji

Watashi wa shokuji no torikata o kaeru beki desu ka.

Words

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

は (は)

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

食事 (しょくじ)

meal; to eat

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

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.

変える (かえる)

to change; to alter; to transform; to convert; to turn; to vary; to reform; to revise; to amend

可し (べし)

shall; should; must

です (です)

be; is

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

Kanji

私

Readings: シ、 わたくし、 わたし

Meanings: private, I, me

食

Readings: ショク、 ジキ、 く.う、 く.らう、 た.べる、 は.む

Meanings: eat, food

事

Readings: ジ、 ズ、 こと、 つか.う、 つか.える

Meanings: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly

方

Readings: ホウ、 かた、 -かた、 -がた

Meanings: direction, person, alternative

変

Readings: ヘン、 か.わる、 か.わり、 か.える

Meanings: unusual, change, strange