Need a word or phrase translated?

[Jericho Desu]

Isn't it ずうずうしい or "impudent"?

Ah, yes that would be it! Thank you

 

[82riceballs]

1)
少なからず
少なからず（すくなからず）の意味 - goo国語辞書
2)
the adjectival form of the negative of らしい ＝ らしくない
3)
さることながら
「さることながら」の検索結果 - Yahoo!辞書
さる is not a verb but considered a 連体詞(attributive/adnominal adjective or unconjugated adjective).
#1/#2 and #3 originated from a conjugation of classical adjectives and verbs, respectively.

Thanks for your detailed response!

もともと勉強する気がないのなら、大学を受けてみたところで何の意味があるのか。
I don't understand the meaning of ところ in this sentence- is there some English equivalent of this?

よろしくお願いします!

 

[Toritoribe]

もともと勉強する気がないのなら、大学を受けてみたところで何の意味があるのか。
I don't understand the meaning of ところ in this sentence- is there some English equivalent of this?
よろしくお願いします!

～たところで
「ところで」の検索結果 - Yahoo!辞書

"Even if" would be the one.

 

[Elizabeth]

Thanks for your detailed response!
もともと勉強する気がないのなら、大学を受けてみたところで何の意味があるのか。
I don't understand the meaning of ところ in this sentence- is there some English equivalent of this?
よろしくお願いします!

I think たところで is always replaceable with ~て/~でも (but not the reverse) if that helps with the yahoo explanation.

 

[Toritoribe]

I think たところで is always replaceable with て/でも (but not the reverse) if that helps with the yahoo explanation.

It's rather ～しても/～たとしても as in the explanation.;-)

 

[Elizabeth]

It's rather ～しても/～たとしても as in the explanation.;-)

Oh, yes. And ta tokoro de may well be more replaceable with something like Tatoe ~te mo than ~te/demo. I used what I thought would be clearest to the OP. :emoji_flushed:

 

[languagetapes]

Doing a Genki exercise and I have no idea what it is asking...

あなたの大学には、どこの国の人がいますか。

 

[Elizabeth]

Doing a Genki exercise and I have no idea what it is asking...
あなたの大学には、どこの国の人がいますか。

It's asking about the countries of the people in your college.

 

[ningen]

I just learned 危ない means "dangerous"
but I saw at the online dictionary that it also means "in danger" and "insecure"/"doubtful"

so if I say: "Kare wa abunai desu"
it can mean "he is dangerous", "he is in danger" or "he is insecure" ?

 

[hiptanaka]

I just learned 危ない means "dangerous"
but I saw at the online dictionary that it also means "in danger" and "insecure"/"doubtful"
so if I say: "Kare wa abunai desu"
it can mean "he is dangerous", "he is in danger" or "he is insecure" ?

I think that would mean "he is troubled", as in, "in danger".

 

[yusr]

I have a question about "jibun", I know it means "myself." But recently I was
reading where a man started telling a story about someone else, and said:
"彼は美しい 自分の母親をこよなく愛していたのだ"
Here I'm not sure whether he meant his own mother in the story, because
of the way the person he was talking to reacted, and since the story was
supposed to have happened 300 years ago. So, can 'jibun' when being
used in that manner be meant as the person he's talking about's mother?

 

[ravattar]

Hi, I'm aquariumist. It is my first post
The best Aquarium contest is IAPLC organized by Takashi Amano.
I need to translate titles of top prize works. Titles are in English and Japanese.

五月の青い風 is blue or green wind in may? What does it mean 青い風 ? Young wind fresh?
(Have made mistake.)

Now I stacked with this knot .In English it called "Knot". However if I translate it in japanese or chinese these translations do not correspond to title in japanese and i cannot find this kanji.
Thank you in advance!

 

[Toritoribe]

I have a question about "jibun", I know it means "myself." But recently I was
reading where a man started telling a story about someone else, and said:
"彼は美しい 自分の母親をこよなく愛していたのだ"
Here I'm not sure whether he meant his own mother in the story, because
of the way the person he was talking to reacted, and since the story was
supposed to have happened 300 years ago. So, can 'jibun' when being
used in that manner be meant as the person he's talking about's mother?

Yes, it's common to use 自分 in that way. It's considered that the writer wrote it in the person's position.

Hi, I'm aquariumist. It is my first post
The best Aquarium contest is IAPLC organized by Takashi Amano.
I need to translate titles of top prize works. Titles are in English and Japanese.
魅惑の森 is blue or green wind in may? What does it mean 魅惑 ? Young wind fresh?

魅惑の森 literally means "a fascinating woods/forest".

Now I stacked with this knot .In English it called "Knot". However if I translate it in Japanese or Chinese these translations do not correspond to title in Japanese and I cannot find this kanji.
Thank you in advance!

It's 絆[kizuna], and exactly refers to "knot" as in "a lover's knot".

 

[yusr]

Thanks so much!! I'd never heard of that before.

 

[ravattar]

Thank you very much indeed!

魅惑の森 literally means "a fascinating woods/forest".

I have made mistake, sorry, Actually I had tried to ask about this:

五月の青い風 is blue or green wind in may? What does it mean 青い風 ? Young wind? fresh wind?

 

[Toritoribe]

五月の青い風 is blue or green wind in may? What does it mean 青い風 ? Young wind fresh?
(Have made mistake.)

Yes, it's literally "Blue wind in May". 青 also has a nuance of "young/immature" in Japanese.

 

[sl89]

I was reading a Japanese doujinshi (attempting to, anyway) and saw a word that I'm not familiar with.

Does anyone know what the onomatopoeia くぷ means?

I tried looking it up in various places, but couldn't figure it out.

 

[Glenn]

I'd need some sort of context to figure that one out.

 

[Toritoribe]

I consider it would be hard to explain concretely; a sort of "not-appropriate-in-this-forum" situation...

 

[Glenn]

Hmm... I see... (but not really).

 

[ningen]

I often hear something that sounds like "wakatta", the meaning attached to it is "yes, understood" but I can't find it in the online dictionary, does anyone know what word I'm looking for?
:?

EDIT
second question:
Ik want to write all the things I have to do in kanji in my agenda
and I need two words, Book Report and Homework
Homework was written as 宿題 if I'm right, romaji: Shukudai
But I can't find Book Report anywhere, can someone give me the kanji and romaji please?

 

[Glenn]

It's the past form of わかる.

宿題 is right. I don't know about "book report", but I'm thinking maybe 回想文 (kaisoubun) would work. You're going to wait to see what out resident native speakers think about that suggestion, though.

 

[Toritoribe]

I often hear something that sounds like "wakatta", the meaning attached to it is "yes, understood" but I can't find it in the online dictionary, does anyone know what word I'm looking for?
:emoji_thinking:

EDIT
second question:
Ik want to write all the things I have to do in kanji in my agenda
and I need two words, Book Report and Homework
Homework was written as 宿題 if I'm right, romaji: Shukudai
But I can't find Book Report anywhere, can someone give me the kanji and romaji please?

読書感想文 would work for "book report" as an assignment of homework.


Japanese verb conjugation - Wikipedia

As you can see in the table on the wiki page linked above, the ～った ending past form has three possibilities (～う, ～つ, ～る) for its dictionary form, i.e., there are three possibilities for the dictionary form of わかった; わかう, わかつ, わかる. You just look up these candidate words in the dictionary, then you can get the correct verb わかる or "understand".


This method also works for とどいて in this post. (Although you need to parse the sentence correctly.)

Japanese verb conjugation - Wikipedia
(とどいて→とどく or とどいる→とどく）

 

[Glenn]

Man, I switched out a sound... No wonder it didn't come up in the 変換! *sigh* I may need to start studying Japanese again. I keep having these issues lately.

 

[ningen]

Is 読書感想文 pronounced as "dokushokunsoubun" and literally means "Litterally description of one's thoughts about something he/she read", am I right?