私が床に入るか入らないうちに電話が鳴りだした。

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English Translation

I had hardly gotten into bed when the telephone began to ring.

Furigana

私(わたし)が床(ゆか)に入(はい)るか入(はい)らないうちに電話(でんわ)が鳴(な)りだした。

Romanji

Watashi ga yuka ni hairu ka hairanai uchini denwa ga naridashita.

Words

私 (わたし、わたくし)

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

が (が)

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

床 (とこ)

bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat; floor

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

入る (いる)

to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in

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

打ち荷 (うちに)

jettisoned cargo

電話 (でんわ)

telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone