母は事故を起こすことを恐れて、決して車を運転しません。

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English Translation

My mother never drives for fear of causing an accident.

Furigana

母(はは)は事故(じこ)を起(お)こすことを恐(おそ)れて、決(けっ)して車(くるま)を運転(うんてん)しません。

Romanji

Haha wa jiko o okosu koto o osorete, kesshite kuruma o untenshimasen.

Words

母 (はは、はわ、かか、おも、いろは、あも)

mother

は (は)

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

事故 (じこ、ことゆえ)

accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons

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.

起こす (おこす)

to raise; to raise up; to set up; to pick up; to wake; to wake up; to waken; to awaken; to cause; to bring about; to lead to; to trigger; to give rise to; to create; to generate (e.g. heat, electricity); to produce; to start; to begin; to launch; to establish; to found; to set up; to open; to plough; to plow; to till; to fall ill with; to transcribe; to write down (what is spoken); to turn over (a card)

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

恐れる (おそれる)

to fear; to be afraid of

決して (けっして、けして)

never; by no means; not in the least; in no way

車 (くるま)

car; automobile; vehicle; wheel

運転 (うんてん)

operation (of a machine, etc.); operating; running; run; driving; working (capital, etc.)