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議長としてドン・ジョーンズを指名したいと思います。

Sentence Analyzer

議長 として どん ジョーンズ 指名したい 思います

English Translation

I would like to nominate Don Jones as chairman.

Furigana

議長(ぎちょう)としてドン・ジョーンズを指名(しめい)したいと(おも)います。

Romanji

Gichō toshite Don Jo-Nzu o shimeishitai to omoimasu.

Words

議長 (ぎちょう)
chairman; speaker (e.g. of assembly); president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.); moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup)
として (として)
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
ドン (ドン、どん)
bang; bam; boom; thud; thump; crash; noontime signal gun (early Meiji to early Showa); noontime signal shot; precisely; exactly; plumb; totally; very; polite suffix used after a person's name (often of an apprentice; used much more broadly in southern Kyushu)
(なかぽち)
middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)
()
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.
指名 (しめい)
name; nominate; designate
()
if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)
思う (おもう)
to think; to consider; to believe; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to regard; to imagine; to suppose; to dream; to expect; to look forward to; to feel; to desire; to want; to recall; to remember

Kanji

Reading: 
Meanings: deliberation, consultation, debate, consideration
Readings: チョウ、 なが.い、 おさ
Meanings: long, leader, superior, senior
Readings: シ、 ゆび、 さ.す、 -さ.し
Meanings: finger, point to, indicate, put into, play (chess), measure (ruler)
Readings: メイ、 ミョウ、 な、 -な
Meanings: name, noted, distinguished, reputation
Readings: シ、 おも.う、 おもえら.く、 おぼ.す
Meaning: think