飢饉が人々にひどい窮乏をもたらした。

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飢饉が人々にひどい窮乏をもたらした。

English Translation

Famine caused great distress among the people.

Furigana

飢饉(ききん)が人々(ひとびと)にひどい窮乏(きゅうぼう)をもたらした。

Romanji

Kikin ga hitobito ni hidoi kyūbō o motarashita.

Words

飢饉 (ききん)

famine; drought; shortage; crop failure

が (が)

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

人々 (ひとびと、にんにん)

each person; people; men and women; everybody

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

酷い (ひどい)

cruel; heartless; hard; harsh; severe; violent; intense; strong; heavy; extreme; very bad; terrible; awful; excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; outrageous; unfair; unjust

窮乏 (きゅうぼう)

poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury

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.

齎す (もたらす)

to bring; to take; to bring about