最近お姉さんから便りがありますか。

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最近 姉さん から 便り あります

English Translation

Have you heard from your sister lately?

Furigana

最近(さいきん)(ねえ)さんから便(たよ)りがありますか。

Romanji

Saikin o nēsan kara tayori ga arimasu ka.

Words

最近 (さいきん)
most recent; these days; right now; recently; nowadays
(お、おん)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
姉さん (ねえさん、あねさん)
elder sister; (vocative) young lady; miss (referring to a waitress, etc.); ma'am (used by geisha to refer to their superiors)
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
便り (たより)
news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter
()
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
()
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

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: シ、 あね、 はは
Meaning: elder sister
便
Readings: ベン、 ビン、 たよ.り
Meanings: convenience, facility, excrement, feces, letter, chance