警察は彼の死を殺人事件として扱っている。

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English Translation

The police are treating his death as a case of murder.

Furigana

警察(けいさつ)は彼(かれ)の死(し)を殺人(さつじん)事件(じけん)として扱(あつか)っている。

Romanji

Keisatsu wa kare no shi o satsujin jiken toshite atsukatteiru.

Words

警察 (けいさつ)

police; police officer; police station

は (は)

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

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

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

死 (し)

death; decease; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation)

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.

殺人 (さつじん)

murder

事件 (じけん)

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal

として (として)

as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...

扱う (あつかう)

to deal with (a person); to treat; to handle; to take care of; to entertain; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to manage; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to work; to deal in; to sell; to cover (a topic); to treat; to discuss; to take up; to treat A as B; to mediate (an argument); to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to gossip