私の父は口数が少ない。
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English Translation
My father is a man of few words.
Furigana
Romanji
Watashi no chichi wa kuchikazu ga sukunai.
Words
私
(わたし、わたくし)
I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness
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
父
(ちち、とと、ちゃん、てて、かぞ、かそ、しし、あて)
father
は
(は)
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
口数
(くちかず、くちすう)
number of words a person speaks; number of dependents (words, shares, accounts)
が
(が)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
少ない
(すくない)
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom