国王が王子をとらえたことがまた戦争をひきおこした。

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English Translation

The capture of the prince by the king led to another war.

Furigana

国王(こくおう)が王子(おうじ)をとらえたことがまた戦争(せんそう)をひきおこした。

Romanji

Kokuō ga ōji o toraeta koto ga mata sensō o hikiokoshita.

Words

国王 (こくおう)

king

が (が)

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

王子 (おうじ)

prince

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.

捕らえる (とらえる)

to seize; to capture; to arrest; to grasp; to perceive; to treat (as)

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

又 (また)

again; and; also; still (doing something)

戦争 (せんそう)

war

引き起こす (ひきおこす)

to cause; to induce; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)