君、結構やるらしいじゃないか

I've just discovered this new phrase:

結構やるじゃないか

Aparently it means something like "you're pretty good", but I like to break sentences down so let me see if I get this right...

結構 means "good" or "splendid" and やる means "do". So, 結構やる means "do well". Although I thought that adverbs were suppose to have に in them. Maybe it's just a set verb like 勉強する?

Anyway...

Next we have じゃないか, which I'm not overly familiar with, but I believe it's a tag question similar to "isn't it" "aren't they" etc. So 結構やるじゃないか might mean "you're pretty good, aren't you".

Question regarding じゃないか - are there any other forms that this can take? How about ではないか or じゃないですか? What about leaving off the か? Because I've seen the sentence お宅はすごく大きいじゃない which I thought meant "your house is really big, isn't it"

Finally, I have this sentence too:

君、結構やるらしいじゃないか

らしい indicates some sort of assumption or judgement based on what was seen or heard. So that final sentence might translate to:

- Apparently you're pretty good, aren't you; or
- I hear you're pretty good, hey

What does everyone else think?

Bucko said:

Question regarding じゃないか - are there any other forms that this can take? How about ではないか or じゃないですか? What about leaving off the か? Because I've seen the sentence お宅はすごく大きいじゃない which I thought meant "your house is really big, isn't it"

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Yep. You're absolutely right about this. Maybe there's some difference in nuance between ではないか and the others, but nothing I can put to writing properly within few minutes of hasty thinking..

Bucko said:

What does everyone else think?

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Well I for one think that you've mastered this part of the Japanese language pretty well!!

I would look at as "It seems you're pretty good"

Sounds like some thing from a old school Kung Fu theatre flick.

"It seems your pretty good" grunt
"Well.....(mouth movement) try this on for size!" kyaaaa

You cannot defeat my Iron Monkey Clothes Fist!

Anyway...

Next we have じゃないか, which I'm not overly familiar with, but I believe it's a tag question similar to "isn't it" "aren't they" etc. So 結構やるじゃないか might mean "you're pretty good, aren't you".

Question regarding じゃないか - are there any other forms that this can take? How about ではないか or じゃないですか? What about leaving off the か? Because I've seen the sentence お宅はすごく大きいじゃない which I thought meant "your house is really big, isn't it"

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Ja nai ka sounds really icky and harsh to me....with the "ka" should be one keystone that it is a guy talking. Definitely a masculine way of phrasing it.

Bucko said:

I've just discovered this new phrase:
結構やるじゃないか
Aparently it means something like "you're pretty good", but I like to break sentences down so let me see if I get this right...
結構 means "good" or "splendid" and やる means "do". So, 結構やる means "do well". Although I thought that adverbs were suppose to have に in them. Maybe it's just a set verb like 勉強する?

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No, ni or to isn't always necessary. You know like kanari or zuibun (and others), right ? Sorry I'm at work now and in a massive panic at getting caught online...