More Japanese Translation

Kraise said:

1-手足が吹っ飛ぼうが、毒を食らって動けなくなろうが 必ずつかまえる

2-どんなに抵抗されようと どんな手を使われても

3-私が絶対に オロチマル のことを吐かせてやる

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Kraise said:

Glad to help.
Be sure to study those constructions, though. You've got a lot of new "grammar" in these lines.

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Toritoribe said:

"The volitional form of verbs + が" is a conditional, thus, ふっとぼうが and 動けなくなろうが mean "even if (my limbs) are blown off" and "even if I become unable to move", respectively.

Can you parse 動けなくなる, by the way?

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Toritoribe said:

Have you learned the structure "adjective + なる"?

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Toritoribe said:

Have you learned the structure "adjective + なる"?

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Mike Cash said:

Are those really your attempts at translation? Or did you mean those are your attempts at transcription?

Either way, do we really want to have links to full-length pirated videos here?

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tasqunevie said:

My only other question would be (and sorry I guess I should have looked over them all first) how, or what conjugation, 使われても is being used here?

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tasqunevie said:

I messaged the moderator prior to this and he said it's fine.

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Toritoribe said:

Honestly, it seems to me that you don't have enough listening comprehension yet. It's necessary to grasp at least basic conjugations of verbs and adjectives or to have basic knowledge about the grammatical structures to transcribe it. Listeners can't always catch all the conversation throughout in detail, but they can imagine the conjugation form or grammatical structure from the context. For instance, if you have a decent knowledge about the conjugation of the verb 使う, you would be easily able to realize that つかれても can't be a conjugation form of 使う. I believe this is one of the main reasons beginner learners can't write down from (colloquial) conversation correctly. There is no problem if you want to learn something from that video, but if "transcription" is your purpose, your listening skill doesn't seem to reach to that level yet. No offense, but 使われて（も） is a variation of a very basic conjugation form of 使う.
Japanese verb conjugation - Wikipedia

Also notice that what you asked was if you could ask about a few more lines, not the permission of the link of a video. I, too, think it's better to cut off the part you don't get and upload it somewhere.

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tasqunevie said:

There is still no issue with me making threads on certain areas of grammar I don't understand, yes?

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Mike Cash said:

Quite the contrary. You are not a bother to me and I am glad to have you with us. Since you agree with my observation I don't understand how you can simultaneously take exception to it.

Regardless of how pleased we are to have you with us and regardless of willingness to help you, when anyone who hasn't learned even the most basic conjugation rules yet asks to have relatively more advanced structures explained to him it is inevitable that someone will suggest the efficacy of getting the basics out of the way via a textbook rather than by having us essentially type up textbook explanations for him on a custom basis. The explanations you need are already out there.

Further, Japanese is an agglutinative language.... that means a lot of the most important pieces snap together like Lego blocks and a wide range of meanings and functions are accomplished by knowing the rules for snapping them together and taking them apart. Even the most moderately intermediate aspects of Japanese learning absolutely require a firm foundation of knowing these rules....rules which have the happy feature of being highly regular and not terribly burdensome to learn.

That you can't begin to reverse-engineer 動けなくなる is a very clear indicator that you have skipped the most basic of basics and have no foundation upon which to build an explanation of the sort of structures you are asking about. That you don't recognize 使われる as being the passive form of 使う serves to further amplify your dire need to put the cartoons aside as your sole learning materials, at least until you work your way through the two volumes of Genki or some similar materials.

My observation....again, which you agreed with....was made in kindness and a desire to see you get the quickest and most effective results from your studies and get you on to the fun stuff. It wasn't made because I find you bothersome.

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