今頃言うなんて遅いよ。事が起こった時に言わないと。

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English Translation

Don't come to me now with that. You should have said something when it originally happened.

Furigana

今頃(いまごろ)言(い)うなんて遅(おそ)いよ。事(こと)が起(お)こった時(とき)に言(い)わないと。

Romanji

Imagoro iu nante osoi yo. koto ga okotta tokini iwanai to.

Words

今頃 (いまごろ)

about this time

言う (いう、ゆう)

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

なんて (なんて)

such as; (things) like; exclamation

遅い (おそい)

slow; late (e.g. "late at night"); too late; dull; stupid

よ (よ)

indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc.; used when calling out to someone; used to catch one's breath or get someone's attention; yo!

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

が (が)

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

起こる (おこる)

to occur; to happen

時に (ときに)

by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)