旧友が海外帰国したことを知らせる手紙をよこした。

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English Translation

My old friend wrote to me, informing me of his return from abroad.

Furigana

旧友(きゅうゆう)が海外(かいがい)帰国(きこく)したことを知(し)らせる手紙(てがみ)をよこした。

Romanji

Kyūyū ga kaigai kikokushita koto o shiraseru tegami o yokoshita.

Words

旧友 (きゅうゆう)

crony; old friend

が (が)

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

海外 (かいがい)

foreign; abroad; overseas

帰国 (きこく)

return to one's country

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

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.

知らせる (しらせる)

to notify; to advise; to inform

手紙 (てがみ)

letter

寄越す (よこす)

to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)