鑑識班は今日の火事の原因を特定しようとしている。

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English Translation

Investigators are trying to pin down the cause of today's fire.

Furigana

鑑識(かんしき)班(はん)は今日(きょう)の火事(かじ)の原因(げんいん)を特定(とくてい)しようとしている。

Romanji

Kanshiki han wa kyō no kaji no gen'in o tokuteishiyou to shiteiru.

Words

鑑識 (かんしき)

judgement; judgment; discernment; discrimination; having eye for; forensics; crime lab

班 (はん)

group; party; team; squad; section

は (は)

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

今日 (きょう、こんにち、こんち、こんじつ)

today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays

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

火事 (かじ)

fire; conflagration

原因 (げんいん)

cause; origin; source

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.

特定 (とくてい)

specific; special; particular

と (と)

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

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to