空気がないので月の上では風も音もないはずだ。

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English Translation

Without air there can be no wind or sound on the moon.

Furigana

空気(くうき)がないので月(つき)の上(うえ)では風(かぜ)も音(おと)もないはずだ。

Romanji

Kūki ga nai node tsuki no ue de wa kaze mo oto mo nai hazu da.

Words

空気 (くうき)

air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all

が (が)

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

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

ので (ので、んで)

that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ....; given that...

月 (つき)

moon; month

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

上 (うえ)

above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter); top; summit; surface; on; before; previous; superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder); on top of that; besides; what's more; upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after); matters concerning...; as concerns ...; since (i.e. "for that reason"); suffix indicating higher social standing; place of one's superior (i.e. the throne); emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo; noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman)

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

は (は)

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

風 (かぜ)

wind; breeze; draught; draft; manner; behaviour; behavior; cold; influenza

も (も)

too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence); both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence); even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than; even if; even though; although; in spite of; further; more; again; another; the other

音 (おと、ね、おん)

sound; noise; report; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading

ない (ない)

not; emphatic suffix

筈 (はず)

expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be; nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative