私はその時まで、その種の魚を見たことがなかった。

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English Translation

I had never seen that kind of fish until then.

Furigana

私(わたし)はその時(とき)まで、その種(たね)の魚(さかな)を見(み)たことがなかった。

Romanji

Watashi wa sono toki made, sono tane no sakana o mita koto ga nakatta.

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

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

迄 (まで)

until (a time); till; to; up to; to (a place); as far as; to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; only; merely

種 (たね)

seed; pip; kind; variety; quality; tone; material; matter; subject; theme; (news) copy; leaven (bread); cause; source; trick; secret; inside story

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

魚 (さかな、うお)

fish

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...

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

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

Kanji

私

Readings: シ、わたくし、わたし

Meanings: private, I, me

時

Readings: ジ、とき、 -どき

Meanings: time, hour

種

Readings: シュ、たね、 -ぐさ

Meanings: species, kind, class, variety, seed

魚

Readings: ギョ、うお、さかな、 -ざかな

Meaning: fish

見

Readings: ケン、み.る、み.える、み.せる

Meanings: see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible