或る夕暮私はこの丘の上に立ったことがある。

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English Translation

There was a time, one evening, when I stood on top of that hill.

Furigana

或(ある)る夕暮(ゆうぐれ)私(わたし)はこの丘(おか)の上(うえ)に立(た)ったことがある。

Romanji

Aru ru yūgure watashi wa kono oka no ueni tatta koto ga aru.

Words

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

人 (にん、たり、り)

counter for people; person

夕暮れ (ゆうぐれ)

evening; (evening) twilight

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

は (は)

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

此の (この)

this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)

丘 (おか)

hill; height; knoll; rising ground; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game

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

立つ (たつ)

to stand; to rise; to stand up; to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position); to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

が (が)

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

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about