驚いたことに、彼は大変美しい女優と結婚しました。

Sentence Analyzer

English Translation

To my surprise, he got married to a very beautiful actress.

Furigana

驚(おどろ)いたことに、彼(かれ)は大変(たいへん)美(うつく)しい女優(じょゆう)と結婚(けっこん)しました。

Romanji

Odoroita koto ni, kare wa taihen utsukushii joyū to kekkonshimashita.

Words

驚く (おどろく)

to be surprised; to be astonished

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

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

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

は (は)

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

大変 (たいへん)

very; greatly; immense; enormous; great; serious; grave; dreadful; terrible; difficult; hard; major incident; disaster

美しい (うつくしい)

beautiful; lovely

女優 (じょゆう)

actress

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)