Jericho Desu
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Need a word or phrase translated?
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82riceballs
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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!
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Elizabeth
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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.
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It's rather ～しても/～たとしても as in the explanation.;-)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.
Elizabeth
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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:
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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。
あなたの大学には、どこの国の人がいますか。
Elizabeth
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It's asking about the countries of the people in your college.
I think that would mean "he is troubled", as in, "in danger".
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?
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?
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!
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!
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Yes, it's common to use 自分 in that way. It's considered that the writer wrote it in the person's position.
魅惑の森 literally means "a fascinating woods/forest".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?
It's 絆[kizuna], and exactly refers to "knot" as in "a lover's knot".
Thank you very much indeed!
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?
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?
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Yes, it's literally "Blue wind in May". 青 also has a nuance of "young/immature" in Japanese.
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I consider it would be hard to explain concretely; a sort of "not-appropriate-in-this-forum" situation...
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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）
