私の時計は故障しているかもしれないと言うことがふと頭に浮かんだ。

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English Translation

It occurred to me that my watch might be broken.

Furigana

私(わたし)の時計(とけい)は故障(こしょう)しているかもしれないと言(い)うことがふと頭(あたま)に浮(う)かんだ。

Romanji

Watashi no tokei wa koshōshiteiru kamo shirenai to iu koto ga futo atama ni ukanda.

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

時計 (とけい、ときはかり)

watch; clock; timepiece

は (は)

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

故障 (こしょう)

breakdown; failure; fault; accident; out of order; damage; hurt; objection; protest

かも (かも)

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

知れる (しれる)

to become known; to come to light; to be discovered; to be known; to be understood; to obviously not amount to much; to seem trivial; to be evident; to be obvious; to go without saying; to be very intense (worry, hope, etc.); to be extremely severe

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

言う (いう、ゆう)

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

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

不図 (ふと)

suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally

頭 (あたま、かしら)

head; hair (on one's head); mind; brains; intellect; leader; chief; boss; captain; top; tip; beginning; start; head; person; top structural component of a kanji

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

浮かぶ (うかぶ)

to float; to be suspended; to rise to surface; to come to mind; to have inspiration