火事は消防士の生命を犠牲にして消された。

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English Translation

The fire was put out at the cost of a fireman's life.

Furigana

火事(かじ)は消防士(しょうぼうし)の生命(せいめい)を犠牲(ぎせい)にして消(け)された。

Romanji

Kaji wa shōbōshi no seimei o gisei ni shite kesareta.

Words

火事 (かじ)

fire; conflagration

は (は)

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

消防士 (しょうぼうし)

fireman; firefighter

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

生命 (せいめい)

life; existence

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.

犠牲 (ぎせい)

victim; sacrifice; scapegoat

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

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

消す (けす)

to erase; to delete; to cross out; to turn off power; to extinguish; to put out; to bump off