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会議を欠席した理由をどう説明しますか。

Sentence Analyzer

会議 欠席した 理由 どう 説明します

English Translation

How do you account for your absence from the meeting?

Furigana

会議(かいぎ)欠席(けっせき)した理由(りゆう)をどう説明(せつめい)しますか。

Romanji

Kaigi o kessekishita riyū o dō setsumeishimasu ka.

Words

会議 (かいぎ)
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention; congress
()
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.
欠席 (けっせき)
absence; non-attendance
理由 (りゆう、わけ)
reason; pretext; motive
如何 (どう、いかが、いか)
how; in what way; how about
説明 (せつめい)
explanation; exposition
()
indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

Kanji

Readings: カイ、 エ、 あ.う、 あ.わせる、 あつ.まる
Meanings: meeting, meet, party, association, interview, join
Reading: 
Meanings: deliberation, consultation, debate, consideration
Readings: ケツ、 ケン、 か.ける、 か.く
Meanings: lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)
Readings: セキ、 むしろ
Meanings: seat, mat, occasion, place
Readings: リ、 ことわり
Meanings: logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth
Readings: ユ、 ユウ、 ユイ、 よし、 よ.る
Meanings: wherefore, a reason
Readings: セツ、 ゼイ、 と.く
Meanings: opinion, theory, explanation, rumor
Readings: メイ、 ミョウ、 ミン、 あ.かり、 あか.るい、 あか.るむ、 あか.らむ、 あき.らか、 あ.ける、 -あ.け、 あ.く、 あ.くる、 あ.かす
Meanings: bright, light