警察は殺人事件について新しい証拠が発見できないでいる。

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English Translation

Police have failed to turn up any new evidence about the murder.

Furigana

警察(けいさつ)は殺人(さつじん)事件(じけん)について新(あたら)しい証拠(しょうこ)が発見(はっけん)できないでいる。

Romanji

Keisatsu wa satsujin jiken nitsuite atarashii shōko ga hakken dekinaideiru.

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

殺人 (さつじん)

murder

事件 (じけん)

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

に就いて (について)

concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every

新しい (あたらしい)

new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date; modern

証拠 (しょうこ)

evidence; proof

が (が)

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

発見 (はっけん)

discovery; detection; finding

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant

Kanji

警

Readings: ケイ、いまし.める

Meanings: admonish, commandment

察

Reading: サツ

Meanings: guess, presume, surmise, judge, understand

殺

Readings: サツ、サイ、セツ、ころ.す、 -ごろ.し、そ.ぐ

Meanings: kill, murder, butcher, slice off, split, diminish, reduce, spoil

人

Readings: ジン、ニン、ひと、 -り、 -と

Meaning: person

事

Readings: ジ、ズ、こと、つか.う、つか.える

Meanings: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly

件

Readings: ケン、くだん

Meanings: affair, case, matter, item

新

Readings: シン、あたら.しい、あら.た、あら-、にい-

Meaning: new

証

Readings: ショウ、あかし

Meanings: evidence, proof, certificate

拠

Readings: キョ、コ、よ.る

Meanings: foothold, based on, follow, therefore

発

Readings: ハツ、ホツ、た.つ、あば.く、おこ.る、つか.わす、はな.つ

Meanings: departure, discharge, publish, emit, start from, disclose, counter for gunshots

見

Readings: ケン、み.る、み.える、み.せる

Meanings: see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible