死が二人を分かつまで shi ga futari wo wakatsu made Til Death Do Us Part

死が二人を分かつまで (shi ga futari wo wakatsu made): till death do us part.

死 shi is death; が marks it as the one that acts; 二人 futari is the two, with no us, which Japanese leaves to the couple standing there; 分かつ wakatsu is the formal verb to part, to divide one thing into two, where everyday speech would say 分ける; まで made is until. The clause is the Church of England's, in the marriage service of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, where it reads till death us do part, the word order modern speech turns around.

The Japanese is what churches and wedding chapels in Japan say today in this wording, a vow spoken aloud before it is hung on a wall.

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