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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" threa... A: This is from a dialogue about building an Ark, and the lines immediately after it are concerned with ship building ("We build this boat out of logs, and furnished it with rooms" from what I rememb... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2016-05-17, 6:57 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-05-05, 6:23 am)Kuroro Wrote: Saginaim I'd say you're pretty much right. A: I didn't understand much but I'm glad they settled it. S will join them, don't you think? B: oh my, as usual you don... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2016-05-05, 6:23 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Some stuff from a game. Spacing/line breaks are as per the source text: Speaker A: よく わからなかったけれど 話がまとまって よかったわ Someguyが入会するのね？ Speaker B: Speaker Aったら あいかわらず 話が見えてない。。。。 Unclear on what 話がまとまって and... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2016-05-05, 12:19 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread From http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160405...41000.html: バスを企画した会社の丸木勇人さんは、「試験運行を重ねて知名度を上げて、日本に来た個人旅行客が誰でも乗れるようなバスにしていきたい」と話していました。 I don't understand the second part of the quote -- I was told i... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2016-04-09, 7:46 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" threa... Thanks! To follow up on that: １４９キロの区間で２６日開業し <- I'm still not clear on what で is doing here, so I googled around a bit and I get the impression that で is used to mark the thing that's being opened... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2016-03-28, 7:25 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks for the help with the previous sentence! ... I have some more now! From: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160325...movie=true "北海道新幹線は新函館北斗と新青森の間、１４９キロの区間で２６日開業し、東京と新函館北斗の間は最速４時間２分で結ばれます。" ... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2016-03-28, 5:47 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" threa... "これまでアメリカなどが核開発問題を理由に、およそ１０年間にわたって経済制裁を科し、貿易や外国企業の投資を厳しく制限してきました。" My understanding of this is as a whole is "So far, America et al., on grounds of the nuclear development problem, have imposed econom... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2016-03-27, 12:58 pm | ||
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Thread: RevTK Software Developer Showcase Post: RevTK Software Developer Showcase I wrote a small keyboard-driven EDICT-based kanji lookup tool for Windows that lets you give whatever names you want to the radicals/components you're using. Not sure how useful this really would be t... |
Saginaim | Learning resources | 26 | 26,177 | 2015-11-14, 12:19 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread That makes complete sense, and using some kind of locative indicator to show possession comes up in several languages anyway, so there's nothing surprising there. So I guess my actual question shoul... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-07-08, 5:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Quote from recent video about US v. Japan battlebot competition thing going around. I thought I knew what this meant but now I'm second guessing myself: 俺たちには巨大ロボットがある。 お前たちにも巨大ロボットがある。 Which I belie... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-07-07, 6:26 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks for the clarification on 声をかけてみる, and the sentence as a whole. I still don't understand what から is doing in this sentence, though. I keep reading it like the speaker is saying that they're (a... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-06-14, 8:34 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Something from a game. Person being addressed is in a jail with some thieves and one of them is asking you to help break out. (Previous lines to this were, in English, 1. Are you going to escape? 2... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-06-13, 4:29 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:The sentence-particle ね has to go at the end of a sentence in most cases. In addition, if this Saginaim Wrote:2. 俺の名前はNick.. 今年で65才.. 仕事は大工の親方だ.. (No questions about this.) You unde... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-05-31, 11:20 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thank you both for your help. myxoma Wrote:1. ねぇ is simply the ない (slurred) like the above example. I've had issues with this in the past, I believe, going back to other sentences I've asked about. ... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-05-31, 9:44 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Another block of text from a game. Posting the full dialogue for context, with original linebreaks, although I'm noting the previous suggestion NOT to take those as sentence endings this time :) All ... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-05-30, 7:38 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Couple blocks of text. There's no real additional context for these. 1. 主人思いなヤツなんじゃあ あんなこと ワシはたえられん きっと寂しくてつい... (I think the second line is "I WILL endure such a thing." No clue on the others). 2.... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-05-12, 6:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Sentence 1 was being delivered by someone being deliberately cagey -- I guess I was reading it right, and it was just a weird sentence. Sentence 2 didn't have anything after it -- drdunlap's explanati... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-04-16, 6:34 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Three sentences: 1. "感じた風の数を跳び..." "感じた風の数" appears to be "The number of [different] winds that are felt." I don't know what 跳ぶ's doing there, though -- I think this is *maybe* saying something like... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-04-13, 7:00 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 仲間は大切にするんだな。もしもって時に助かるかどうかは仲間しだいさ。 I have no idea what もしもって/もしもって時に means in this context. Beyond that I think the meaning's something like "Friends are valuable. [もしもって], whether or not you are sa... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2015-01-29, 10:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese sentences ending in nouns. Post: Japanese sentences ending in nouns. gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:Do you mean something like this (http://allabout.co.jp/gm/gc/450223/)? 新年会や生活リズムの乱れで太りやすい年末年始。 Which could be thought of as: 年末年始は新年会や生活リズムの乱れで太りやすい(もの・時)です。 ... That looks ... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,657 | 2015-01-07, 11:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese sentences ending in nouns. Post: Japanese sentences ending in nouns. どこかにいる子供。。。 最後に見た所？ I'm reading this more literally as "The child, who is somewhere... The place where you saw him last?" and would probably rewrite it in English like "The child is somewhere... Is t... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,657 | 2015-01-07, 9:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese sentences ending in nouns. Post: Japanese sentences ending in nouns. This reading I'm working through has a lot of sentences structured like <predicate phrase> <subject/topic noun>. My understanding is that these are actual sentence fragments, comprised of ... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,657 | 2015-01-07, 4:19 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Oh, sorry, left a word out in there -- the last bit was actually そんな七ツ風の島, with 七ツ風の島 being the name of the island. So I'm thinking this would just read, "Seven Wind Island was like something that eve... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2014-12-29, 10:03 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread This sentence is giving me some trouble: だれも見たコトないけれど, だれもが見たコトあるような, そんな風の島。 I'll break it down into how I'm reading the individual noun phrases/clauses: だれも見たコトない = what nobody's ever seen (This ... |
Saginaim | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,100 | 2014-12-29, 1:08 am | ||