恐縮ですが隣の村への道を教えてくれませんか。

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English Translation

Sorry, but can you show me the way to the next village?

Furigana

恐縮(きょうしゅく)ですが隣(となり)の村(むら)への道(みち)を教(おし)えてくれませんか。

Romanji

Kyōshuku desu ga tonari no mura e no michi o oshietekuremasen ka.

Words

恐縮 (きょうしゅく)

feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; being sorry; being ashamed; shrinking back in fear

です (です)

be; is

が (が)

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

隣 (となり)

neighbor (neighbour); next to (esp. living next door to)

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

村 (むら)

village

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

道 (みち)

road; street; way; path; course; route; lane; distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways"); the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals; teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma; field (of medicine, etc.); subject; way; method; means

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.

教える (おしえる)

to teach; to inform; to instruct

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way