家主に家賃を払えば、食物を買う金がなくなる。進退きわまったというところだ。

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English Translation

If we pay the rent to the landlady, we won't have any money for food; we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Furigana

家主(やぬし)に家賃(やちん)を払(はら)えば、食物(しょくもつ)を買(か)う金(きん)がなくなる。進退(しんたい)きわまったというところだ。

Romanji

Yanushi ni yachin o haraeba, shokumotsu o kau kin ga nakunaru. shintai kiwamatta toiu tokoro da.

Words

家主 (やぬし、いえぬし、いえあるじ)

landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household

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

家賃 (やちん)

rent

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.

払う (はらう)

to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to clear away; to dust off; to cut off (e.g. branches); to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention); to show (e.g. respect, concern); to make (e.g. effort, sacrifice); to expend; to exert; to move out (of one's own place); to vacate; to sweep (e.g. one's legs); to knock aside; to make a sweeping stroke (in Japanese calligraphy); to reset (an abacus)

食物 (しょくもつ)

food; foodstuff

買う (かう)

to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke

金 (きん)

gold (Au); golden (color); gold (medal, cup); valuable; of highest value; gold coin; money; Friday; metal (fourth of the five elements); Jin (dynasty of China; 1115-1234 CE); gold general; testicles; karat; carat

が (が)

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

無くなる (なくなる)

to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to be reduced to zero; to not occur any more; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)

進退 (しんたい)

movement; course of action; advance or retreat

極まる (きわまる)

to terminate; to reach an extreme; to take to the extreme; to be in a dilemma; to be at an end

と言う (という、とゆう)

called; named; as many as; as much as; all X; every X

所 (ところ、とこ)

place; spot; scene; site; address; district; area; locality; one's house; point; part; space; room; whereupon; as a result; about to; on the verge of; was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative