女性の乞食が５～６人の子どもをぞろぞろつれて物乞いをしていました。

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English Translation

A female beggar was begging with five or six children following along.

Furigana

女性(じょせい)の乞食(こじき)が５～６人(にん)の子(こ)どもをぞろぞろつれて物乞(ものご)いをしていました。

Romanji

Josei no kojiki ga go roku nin no kodomo o zorozoro tsurete monogoi o shiteimashita.

Words

女性 (じょせい、にょしょう)

woman; female; feminine gender

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

乞食 (こじき、こつじき)

beggar; begging

が (が)

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

五 (ご、いつ、い)

five

六 (ろく、む、むう)

six

人 (じん)

-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); indicates nationality, race, origin, etc.; -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; indicates expertise (in a certain field); (usu. in compound words) man; person; people

子供 (こども)

child; children

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.

ぞろぞろ (ぞろぞろ)

in groups; in succession

連れる (つれる)

to lead; to take (a person)

物乞い (ものごい)

beggar; begging

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to