例(たと)え()ば() tatoeba、大(おお)阪(さか) oosakaは waサンフランシスコ sanfuranshisukoの no姉(し)妹(まい)都(と)市(し) shimaitoshiです desu。 For example, Osaka is a sister city of San Francisco. Literal For-example, Osaka [topic-は] San-Francisco [of-の] sister-city [copula-です]. 姉妹都市 ('sister city') is a compound: 姉妹 ('sisters') + 都市 ('city'). A standard geographic-partnership term worldwide; Japanese uses the same family-metaphor framing as English. Japanese cities famously have many international sister-city pairings. cultureplace names
例(たと)え()ば() tatoeba、大(おお)阪(さか) oosakaは waサンフランシスコ sanfuranshisukoの no姉(し)妹(まい)都(と)市(し) shimaitoshiです desu。 For example, Osaka is a sister city of San Francisco. Literal For-example, Osaka [topic-は] San-Francisco [of-の] sister-city [copula-です]. 姉妹都市 ('sister city') is a compound: 姉妹 ('sisters') + 都市 ('city'). A standard geographic-partnership term worldwide; Japanese uses the same family-metaphor framing as English. Japanese cities famously have many international sister-city pairings. cultureplace names