母親は、大学に入っていない娘のことをさびしく思った。

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English Translation

The mother missed her daughter who was away at college.

Furigana

母親(ははおや)は、大学(だいがく)に入(はい)っていない娘(むすめ)のことをさびしく思(おも)った。

Romanji

Hahaoya wa, daigaku ni haitteinai musume no koto o sabishiku omotta.

Words

母親 (ははおや)

mother

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

大学 (だいがく)

post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning - one of the Four Books

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

入る (いる)

to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in

娘 (むすめ)

(my) daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)

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

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

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.

寂しい (さびしい、さみしい)

lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate

思う (おもう)

to think; to consider; to believe; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to regard; to imagine; to suppose; to dream; to expect; to look forward to; to feel; to desire; to want; to recall; to remember