残念なのは彼が失敗したことだ。

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残念なのは彼が失敗したことだ。

English Translation

The pity is that he has failed.

Furigana

残念(ざんねん)なのは彼(かれ)が失敗(しっぱい)したことだ。

Romanji

Zannenna no wa kare ga shippaishita koto da.

Words

残念 (ざんねん)

deplorable; bad luck; regret; disappointment

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

は (は)

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

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

が (が)

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

失敗 (しっぱい)

failure; mistake; blunder

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

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative