Kinsao
Horizon Rider
- 8 May 2005
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Hi! :joyful:
I was studying Japanese for a while, and when my classes finished I did self-study instead and made quite good progress on kanji that way. But since September-time I slacked on my study due to other committments ;_;; but now my Japanese friend sent me a book of proverbs for Christmas so I am getting back into my study to try and read this book!
Anyway there is a sentence that I would like some help about...
I am sorry I can't write it in Japanese script here >_< so I have to romaji it :sorry:
The sentence goes "Jinsei no samazama na 'shi-n' de odoroku hodo ooku no koto wo okuete kuremasu".
-- The word "shi-n" I put in inverted commas because it is written in katakana, but I can't find it in my dictionary or for the life of me figure out what it should be translated to in English! @_@
-- The word "koto" is written in hiragana, which also confuses me a little, because the meanings of "koto" that I know all have a kanji for them.
I can understand the meanings of the individual components, but can't figure out how they construct the sentence... if you know what I mean. Also, without the meaning of "shi-n" it makes things more complicated to work out. Is anyone able to help?
I was studying Japanese for a while, and when my classes finished I did self-study instead and made quite good progress on kanji that way. But since September-time I slacked on my study due to other committments ;_;; but now my Japanese friend sent me a book of proverbs for Christmas so I am getting back into my study to try and read this book!
Anyway there is a sentence that I would like some help about...
I am sorry I can't write it in Japanese script here >_< so I have to romaji it :sorry:
The sentence goes "Jinsei no samazama na 'shi-n' de odoroku hodo ooku no koto wo okuete kuremasu".
-- The word "shi-n" I put in inverted commas because it is written in katakana, but I can't find it in my dictionary or for the life of me figure out what it should be translated to in English! @_@
-- The word "koto" is written in hiragana, which also confuses me a little, because the meanings of "koto" that I know all have a kanji for them.
I can understand the meanings of the individual components, but can't figure out how they construct the sentence... if you know what I mean. Also, without the meaning of "shi-n" it makes things more complicated to work out. Is anyone able to help?