会社が昇給を拒否したとき、彼等はストライキをした。

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English Translation

When the company refused to increase their wages, they walked out.

Furigana

会社(かいしゃ)が昇給(しょうきゅう)を拒否(きょひ)したとき、彼等(かれら)はストライキをした。

Romanji

Kaisha ga shōkyū o kyohishita toki, karera wa sutoraiki o shita.

Words

会社 (かいしゃ)

company; corporation; workplace

が (が)

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

昇給 (しょうきゅう)

salary raise

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.

拒否 (きょひ)

denial; veto; rejection; refusal

とき (とき)

regular (stops at every station) Jouetsu-line Shinkansen

彼ら (かれら)

they (usually male); them

は (は)

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

ストライキ (ストライキ)

strike (i.e. industrial action)

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