国境問題での小競り合いから重大な国際紛争へと広がりました。

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English Translation

A small border dispute ballooned into a major international incident.

Furigana

国境(こっきょう)問題(もんだい)での小競(こぜ)り合(あ)いから重大(じゅうだい)な国際(こくさい)紛争(ふんそう)へと広(ひろ)がりました。

Romanji

Kokkyō mondai de no kozeriai kara jūdaina kokusai funsō e to hirogarimashita.

Words

国境 (こっきょう、くにざかい、こっかい)

national border; provincial border

問題 (もんだい)

question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion; controversy; trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

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

小競り合い (こぜりあい)

skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy; squabble; quarrel; brief argument; exchange of words

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

重大 (じゅうだい)

serious; important; significant; grave; weighty

国際 (こくさい)

international

紛争 (ふんそう)

dispute; trouble; strife

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

と (と)

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

広がる (ひろがる)

to spread (out); to extend; to stretch; to reach to; to get around; to fill (e.g. a space)