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Help with nuance

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こんにちは皆さん
I'm having some trouble with interpreting a couple of short dialogues from kiki's delivery service the movie.
The context is that they are looking for a customer's house for a delivery while she is flying on her broom stick.
Can someone please let me know what this means.

Jiji the cat asks if this is the house and Kiki replies

うん、うごいちゃだめよ。

jiji then asks should we go? Then kiki says.

できるだけしないで。



よろしくお願いします
 
Do you understand the context, what happened on their way to the house and what their plan is to resolve the problem?

You should provide us the whole conversation. いき is 息, not 行き.


How about your previous question about トトロ? You got the meaning of the sentence?
 
jiji: あのいえ?
kiki: うん、うごいちゃだめよ。
jiji: いき
kiki: できるだけしないで。

The context is they have just lost their stuffed toy (ぬいぐるみ)to be delivered for a present. they are flying over the town on a broom above a house with jiji the cat pretending to be the stuffed toy.

As for the question on トトロ。
susuwataritte konnannode zawazawa tte ugokumono?
すすわたりってこんなのでざわざわってうごくもの。
the obaasan has just said that the little soot fairies are called susuwatari and satsukisan is asking if obaasan if she is talking about the same thing they have seen. so she saying sasawari are they the such things that mummur and move?

I have seen zawazawa meaning as mummuring or chatter and ugomono as moving things, konnano means such like this or similar i think.

よろしくおねがいします
 
Jiji is going to pretend to be the stuffed toy and then Kiki says 動いちゃだめよ to Jiji. Makes sense?



できるだけしないで。

Jiji is asking about his breathing, and then Kiki is answering about it. Isn't it obvious what the omitted object of しないで is?


ざわざわ also can be used as an onomatopoeia for movement that causes a sort of noise.
ざわ‐ざわ
2 木の葉などが触れ合う音を表す語。「木々が―(と)音をたてる」
ざわざわの意味 - 国語辞書 - goo辞書
 
Yeah. It makes sense now after the fact. Also the kanji helps Because i can see breath and movement . She is telling him to be still and he asks can i breath? And she says try not to or do your best.
Thank you for your patience toritoribesan
 
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