昨日の火事のことを聞きましたか。

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昨日 の 火事 の こと を 聞きました か 。

English Translation

Did you hear about the fire yesterday?

Furigana

昨日(きのう)の火事(かじ)のことを聞(き)きましたか。

Romanji

Kinō no kaji no koto o kikimashita ka.

Words

昨日 (きのう、さくじつ)

yesterday

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

火事 (かじ)

fire; conflagration

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

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.

聞く (きく)

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to query; to learn of; to hear about; to follow (advice); to comply with; to smell (esp. incense); to sample fragrance

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

Kanji

昨

Reading: サク

Meanings: yesterday, previous

日

Readings: ニチ、 ジツ、 ひ、 -び、 -か

Meanings: day, sun, Japan, counter for days

火

Readings: カ、 ひ、 -び、 ほ-

Meaning: fire

事

Readings: ジ、 ズ、 こと、 つか.う、 つか.える

Meanings: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly

聞

Readings: ブン、 モン、 き.く、 き.こえる

Meanings: hear, ask, listen