国会討論の放送を聞きましたか。

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国会 討論 の 放送 を 聞きました か 。

English Translation

Did you listen to the Parliamentary debate?

Furigana

国会(こっかい)討論(とうろん)の放送(ほうそう)を聞(き)きましたか。

Romanji

Kokkai tōron no hōsō o kikimashita ka.

Words

国会 (こっかい)

National Diet; parliament; congress

討論 (とうろん)

debate; discussion

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

放送 (ほうそう)

broadcast; broadcasting

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

国

Readings: コク、 くに

Meaning: country

会

Readings: カイ、 エ、 あ.う、 あ.わせる、 あつ.まる

Meanings: meeting, meet, party, association, interview, join

討

Readings: トウ、 う.つ

Meanings: chastise, attack, defeat, destroy, conquer

論

Reading: ロン

Meanings: argument, discourse

放

Readings: ホウ、 はな.す、 -っぱな.し、 はな.つ、 はな.れる、 こ.く、 ほう.る

Meanings: set free, release, fire, shoot, emit, banish, liberate

送

Readings: ソウ、 おく.る

Meanings: escort, send

聞

Readings: ブン、 モン、 き.く、 き.こえる

Meanings: hear, ask, listen