Those are two sentences (the first line is just a noun clause, not a complete sentence, though), as jt_-san wrote.
It's interesting for me and that's why I'm following this. Even though you are at a very basic level, Toritoribe-san's explanations are often at a very advanced level so I often learn something interesting. Often I don't retain the information because the parts of speech/grammar nitty gritty aren't really that important for day to day speaking but it's still interesting. For most beginning speakers, I think it's best get exposed to a bunch of examples and learn representative examples for grammar points. The linguistic details can get in the way. But you're still young. If you can retain this info and use it, more power to you.Well, it's interesting to be aware of it I'd say.
By learning the grammar rules. When it's ambiguous, read the sentence one or more ways and pick the one that makes the most sense from the context.How can I better determine the beginning/end of sentences if I can't count on punctuation?
Sounds like it's something within the game. A made up name or object.I wasn't misreading it, I was just copy/pasting my old message, I fixed the wrong transcription in a previous message.
What is the meaning of 「オヌシ」here? The only I could find is a katakana transcription of おぬし, the pronoun.
Toritoribeさん has also alluded to this, but no, this is not correct. I believe I've already addressed this, but the correct way to break it down is:Would I be right in the way I've separated the text as two different sentences?
「ゆうふくなものたちが すむ街
駅の近くにいる。」 「きん色のものに
せいいを 見せている (。) オタシが 見えます。」
By learning the grammar rules. When it's ambiguous, read the sentence one or more ways and pick the one that makes the most sense from the context.Zizka said:How can I better determine the beginning/end of sentences if I can't count on punctuation?
Could you tell me how many sentences there are in that excerpt?
なにも：副詞：last time we discussed this, I was told that in order to mean ''nothing'' なにも had to be used in conjunction with the negative form of a verb. I've translated it as nothing and I know it's probably wrong but I can't see how else to interpret that word.
In this case, I think it is better to think of this as two separate particles, than as a set-phrase double particle.には：double particle: ''in regards to''
How did you decide that せいい means 誠意 ? I was thinking it is probably 勢威 as it seems like something you'd encounter in a video game.誠意を見せている
Wouldn't it be one incomplete sentence plus one more? ...中よ is not grammatical. Or one incomplete sentence plus two sentences held together by the conjunction BUT.Two. There is another hint you can use to determine sentence breakdown, and it works on this image and the previous one. Look for line breaks that leave lots of blank space behind.
Whoops, just realized I didn't address this. Unlike the previous example ending with 街, 「やみのきゅうでんの中よ」 still functions as a complete sentence. It's 「（〇〇は）やみのきゅうでんの中（だ）よ」 with the topic omitted and the copula dropped as a characteristic of feminine speech (just like ありそうね in the same text box would be ありそうだね in non-feminine speech).Wouldn't it be one incomplete sentence plus one more? ...中よ is not grammatical. Or one incomplete sentence plus two sentences held together by the conjunction BUT.
For what it's worth I found this word in a game context. Knight of Influence, Ornas | Cardfight!! Vanguard Wiki | FANDOM powered by WikiaOf course I can't be 100% certain without context, but that's the first thing that came to mind and I'm fairly confident about it because 誠意を見せる is a common idiomatic phrase, whereas 勢威を見せる isn't so much. (I just double-checked for good measure, and sure enough, if you search for the latter on Japanese-language Google, it assumes you meant the former.)
Makes sense. I have the same understanding except I was under the impression that it was not grammatically correct strictly speaking.Whoops, just realized I didn't address this. Unlike the previous example ending with 街, 「やみのきゅうでんの中よ」 still functions as a complete sentence. It's 「（〇〇は）やみのきゅうでんの中（だ）よ」 with the topic omitted and the copula dropped as a characteristic of feminine speech (just like ありそうね in the same text box would be ありそうだね in non-feminine speech).
An example (just making the leading question up for illustrative purposes, it's not actually from the game):
A: お宝はどこにあるの？
So where's the treasure?
B: やみのきゅうでんの中よ
(It's) in the Palace of Darkness.
It's casual, feminine speech but not ungrammatical, and not a sentence fragment.
(note: edited for clarity)
なさそう：形容動詞: doesn't seem, unlikely...You did it right. There IS a negative form in there (of an adjective, actually); it's just expressed in a form you are not familiar with. Take another look at なさそう. Rather than just translate it, make sure you understand the inflection that is going on there.
On another one, here's something else which I do about as much as translating (rote writing vocabulary and kanji). I have a notebook filled with this (I've used a link because the image was too big):
Look up explanations for how the existence verb works. ある・(では)ないなさそう：形容動詞: doesn't seem, unlikely...
Well, when I was looking up its meaning, I thought that this count as a negative but it wasn't a verb so I wasn't sure if it would count.
あたる→あたらない→あたらなくてEDIT: Could I get a subtle hint regarding 当たらなくて please.
Not really correct to say "negative of the te-form" but I know what you mean. The others were close enough.Ahh ok so it was just the negative of the ーて form after all.
Am I right about the rest before I translate?
Yes to link the clauses. Negative because they want to say "not hit" vs "hit."Well, I'll assume they accurate.
もともと 占いなど
当たらなくて 当たり前なのだ。
もし もしもだ…
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I'm thinking 「当たる」is a punctual verb here. And yet I'm not sure it matters it the ーて form isn't used in combination with 「ある/いる」. So the only meaning of ーて left would be to link sentences? In that case, why the negative?
Q1.: Even "originally" for 「もともと」because I would've thought that the past would be used in combination with 「もともと」.The others were close enough.