残念なことに、私のお気に入りのテレビ番組が先月放送を止めた。

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English Translation

To my regret, my favorite TV show went off the air last month.

Furigana

残念(ざんねん)なことに、私(わたし)のお気(き)に入(い)りのテレビ番組(ばんぐみ)が先月(せんげつ)放送(ほうそう)を止(と)めた。

Romanji

Zannenna koto ni, watashi no okiniiri no terebi bangumi ga sengetsu hōsō o tometa.

Words

残念 (ざんねん)

deplorable; bad luck; regret; disappointment

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

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

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

お気に入り (おきにいり)

favorite; favourite; pet (e.g. teacher's pet); bookmark (in web browser)

テレビ (テレビ)

television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast

番組 (ばんぐみ)

program (e.g. TV); programme

が (が)

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

先月 (せんげつ)

last month

放送 (ほうそう)

broadcast; broadcasting

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.

止める (とめる)

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to hold back (tears); to hold (one's breath); to relieve (pain); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade; to forbid; to prohibit; to notice; to be aware of; to concentrate on; to pay attention to; to remember; to bear in mind; to fix (in place); to fasten; to tack; to pin; to nail; to button; to staple; to detain; to keep in custody