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最近熱帯植物の貴重な化石が見つかった。

Sentence Analyzer

最近 熱帯 植物 貴重な 化石 見つかった

English Translation

A unique fossil of a tropical plant was found recently.

Furigana

最近(さいきん)熱帯(ねったい)植物(しょくぶつ)貴重(きちょう)化石(かせき)()つかった。

Romanji

Saikin nettai shokubutsu no kichōna kaseki ga mitsukatta.

Words

最近 (さいきん)
most recent; these days; right now; recently; nowadays
熱帯 (ねったい)
tropics
植物 (しょくぶつ)
plant; vegetation
()
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
貴重 (きちょう)
precious; valuable
化石 (かせき)
fossil; petrifaction; fossilization; fossilisation
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
見つかる (みつかる)
to be found; to be discovered

Kanji

Readings: サイ、 シュ、 もっと.も、 つま
Meanings: utmost, most, extreme
Readings: キン、 コン、 ちか.い
Meanings: near, early, akin, tantamount
Readings: ネツ、 あつ.い
Meanings: heat, temperature, fever, mania, passion
Readings: タイ、 お.びる、 おび
Meanings: sash, belt, obi, zone, region
Readings: ショク、 う.える、 う.わる
Meaning: plant
Readings: ブツ、 モツ、 もの、 もの-
Meanings: thing, object, matter
Readings: キ、 たっと.い、 とうと.い、 たっと.ぶ、 とうと.ぶ
Meanings: precious, value, prize, esteem, honor
Readings: ジュウ、 チョウ、 え、 おも.い、 おも.り、 おも.なう、 かさ.ねる、 かさ.なる、 おも
Meanings: heavy, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
Readings: カ、 ケ、 ば.ける、 ば.かす、 ふ.ける、 け.する
Meanings: change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
Readings: セキ、 シャク、 コク、 いし
Meaning: stone
Readings: ケン、 み.る、 み.える、 み.せる
Meanings: see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible