昨晩、長い間便りのなかった大学時代の友人から電話があった。

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English Translation

Last evening I was rung up by an old college friend whom I had not heard from for years.

Furigana

昨晩(さくばん)、長(なが)い間(ま)便(たよ)りのなかった大学(だいがく)時代(じだい)の友人(ゆうじん)から電話(でんわ)があった。

Romanji

Sakuban, nagai ma tayori no nakatta daigaku jidai no yūjin kara denwa ga atta.

Words

昨晩 (さくばん)

last night

長い (ながい)

long (distance); long (time); lengthy

間 (ま)

space; room; time; pause

便り (たより)

news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter

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

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

大学 (だいがく)

post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning - one of the Four Books

時代 (じだい)

period; epoch; era; age; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness; antiquity; antique; period piece

友人 (ゆうじん)

friend

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

電話 (でんわ)

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

が (が)

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

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about