Need a word or phrase translated?

[Tsukichi]

I have a phrase that I have no idea how to translate.

今日は送らないよ。

I'm really not sure how 送らない (okuranai) is translated when used in this context. :?

So, if someone could help me out, I'd be really grateful.

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

I have a phrase that I have no idea how to translate.

今日は送らないよ。

I'm really not sure how 送らない (okuranai) is translated when used in this context.

This is impossible to translate correctly without more information. My first question was,
何を送らない?

What is being referred to as the object of 送らない?

Thanks!

 

[GaijinPunch]

Well, it could be different depending on the context, but it's most likely "I won't send it today".
Okuru means to send something (via mail, etc.).

 

[epigene]

That's what was odd to me, I was minding my own business and the conversation was started by a person I'd never met or seen before that went:

Him: ねてますよね
Me: 今忙しいので、後にしてください
Him: レベル上げなんてもういきませんよね

My Japanese is, obviously, extremely basic so when he sent the first line I could read it but had no clue as to the meaning.

My response was FFXI's auto-translation of "I'm sorry, I have plans." (this is my "I don't have a clue" safe response ^^) which, now that I see what it actually outputs to a Japanese client, looks more like "I'm busy now so, after I do this please".

After a few minutes he sent me the last line at which point I was so confused I gave up. I'm starting to think perhaps he sent the messages to the wrong person since there's several players with names similar to mine. If that happened the "stop raising the level" translation might make sense since I wouldn't know the rest of the context.

How does ねてますよね become "You're sleeping, aren't you"? I just discovered ます as a verb instead of a suffix...is that the form being used here?

The "-yone" has already been discussed by others, so I'll get to what that person just wanted to say. Considering that you were playing an online game, he (assuming it's a he) was well aware that most people must be sleeping by that time, so he was hesitant to ask to play. He wasn't sure himself and was sort of asking himself and anybody who would hear him.

You responded that you're busy, so he knew he was imposing. He must have wanted to upgrade his level (in the game) so much that he asked the question with "yone" half-expecting not getting a response but hoping for that 1% chance.

レベル上げなんてもういきませんよね: I won't be able to raise my level, would I?

So, you don't have to mind that. You were OK not to respond after that.

 

[epigene]

I have a phrase that I have no idea how to translate.

今日は送らないよ。

I'm really not sure how 送らない (okuranai) is translated when used in this context. :?

So, if someone could help me out, I'd be really grateful.

Although GP-san's idea may be right, it can also mean "I won't drive/walk/take you home today."

It's another example of context-dependent use.

 

[GaijinPunch]

Mind that last line, as well. "Leberu age" is used a lot in online games... very useful.

 

[Tsukichi]

Although GP-san's idea may be right, it can also mean "I won't drive/walk/take you home today."

It's another example of context-dependent use.

I think your guess is accurate. Sorry about not giving the context, I'll be sure to do so in the future. The context, however, was a guy having to leave a girl having just kissed her.

ご ごめん ユウリ
今日は送らないよ。

キメ台詞やまほど考えてきたけどやっぱりてれくさいや。

is what he says, and then bids her adieu.

-Thanks!!!

 

[Merar]

Can someone please translate this sentece to me please ?? with using hiragan or kanji but not romaji please

Hello, I'm an arabian girl.. I would like to learn how to speak japanese fluently, I hope someone can help me here, if someone is intersted please tell me .. I can speak japanese pretty good but not fluently so I would like to improve my ability "

my number : -----------
my mail : --------------

Thanks alot

Thanks alot in advanced I really need this as soon as possible

 

[studyonline]

I think your guess is accurate. Sorry about not giving the context, I'll be sure to do so in the future. The context, however, was a guy having to leave a girl having just kissed her.

ご ごめん ユウリ
今日は送らないよ。

キメ台詞やまほど考えてきたけどやっぱりてれくさいや。

is what he says, and then bids her adieu.

-Thanks!!!

The picture I got in my head is a scene of Japanese drama. I hope I am right. If that's the case, 今日は送らないよ probably means "I am not going to send you home today." or "I don't think I can send you home today."

The reason for that is I think in the next line the guy said.

キメ台詞やまほど考えてきたけどやっぱりてれくさいや。 is "I guess I am shy to say it though I thought of lots of cool lines to tell you." Something like that.

 

[crunch]

急かすようにプンプンと手を振ってくる - Would this translate roughly to 'You need to hurry in order to wave off the smell (or anger?)'. Kind of unsure and a double check would be much appreciated.

 

[bentenmusume]

急かすようにプンプンと手を振ってくる - Would this translate roughly to 'You need to hurry in order to wave off the smell (or anger?)'. Kind of unsure and a double check would be much appreciated.

Unfortunately, you're a bit off. What's being described here is someone waving one's hands angrily as if to hurry someone (tell someone to hurry up).

What sort of context did this sentence come up in? That should help give you some clue as to the meaning.

Just a bit of advice: don't get too creative with interpreting things when the structure of the sentence is saying something completely different. "(You) need to hurry" would have to be some form of 急がなきゃ, 急がないと, 急がなくちゃ, 急がなければならない, etc. etc.

Note also that 1) 急かす and 急ぐ are different verbs (the former is transitive), 2) V-ように is not expressing a requirement to do V, 3) in 手を振る, 手 is the object of 振る (telling you what is being waved), 4) プンプンと is being used adverbially (telling you in what way the hands are being waved).

Hope this clears it up a little bit. I can see how this can be a bit of a tricky sentence -- which is why you really have to look beyond the meanings of each individual noun/verb and pay close attention to how the various parts of the sentence hook up with each other.

 

[J44xm]

I recently downloaded a Japanese commercial for the upcoming Nintendo DS game Super Princess Peach, but I couldn't make out the lyrics. (My speech recognition is not very strong at all yet.) I was lucky that the diddy's lyrics appear on the website, but they are there only as a graphic, so I can't look up the kanji. Could someone either provide this text in roomaji or type the lyrics as they are (so I could select the kanji to look it up online)? It's a short tune but very catchy.

 

[Buntaro]

@J44xm

What is the URL to the graphic?

 

[J44xm]

What is the URL to the graphic?

It's part of the Flash animation on the home page. Thanks.

 

[deadhippo]

まぶしい笑顔も あふれる涙も mabushii egao mo afureru namida mo
時には怒った顔も toki ni ha okotta kao mo
武器にしたっていいじゃない buki ni shitatte ii ja nai

from your thumb

 

[J44xm]

Thanks, deadhippo. Now I'll work on translating it. Geez, I'd never have gotten all that from the audio (which I posted above). Man, understanding spoken Japanese often appears to be so difficult. (I did get "ii ja nai," though. You know, the easiest, clearest part of all? Sigh. Admittedly, I didn't hear the last "-i" but assumed its existence, which I think is a small but good sign.)

Update: Looking closer, that should be "shitatte," right?

 

[sfd]

I'm having trouble translating today's hiragana blog:

ぷーるにいきまいした。
さいごに４しゅうしました。
さいしょは、ばたふらいでつぎがせおよぎで、つぎがひらおよぎでさいごがくろーるです。
４しゅうもおよいですごくつかれました。
ぜんぶのおよぎをおよぎました

The first says I went to the pool right?
The rest I don't understand.
Is the last one something like: " I swam everything I had to swim"?

Could someone give a hand?
Thanks.

 

[Elizabeth]

I'm having trouble translating today's hiragana blog:

ぷーるにいきまいした。
さいごに４しゅうしました。
さいしょは、ばたふらいでつぎがせおよぎで、つぎがひらおよぎでさいごがくろーるです。
４しゅうもおよいですごくつかれました。
ぜんぶのおよぎをおよぎました

The first says I went to the pool right?
The rest I don't understand.
Is the last one something like: " I swam everything I had to swim"?

Could someone give a hand?
Thanks.

In the end I did four laps (周) ? times around the pool ?
The first time I did the butterfly, next time the back stroke, next time the breaststroke, and finally the crawl.
I'm extremely tired from swimming those four rounds.
I swam all the swimming (styles ?).

Hope this helps at least a little ! :-

 

[sfd]

In the end I did four laps (周) ? times around the pool ?
The first time I did the butterfly, next time the back stroke, next time the breaststroke, and finally the crawl.
I'm extremely tired from swimming those four rounds.
I swam all the swimming (styles ?).

Hope this helps at least a little ! :-

Ahh thanks I got now, the words for the swimming styles messed me up hehe.

 

[Elizabeth]

Ahh thanks I got now, the words for the swimming styles messed me up hehe.

この訳で問題ないと思いますよ。
It looks like swim strokes simply translates as Oyogi in this case.

 

[studyonline]

It's obvious that the Japanese sentence has a mistake. 周 is not an suitable word to use there. Unless the shape of the pool is round, but I doubt that.

ラップ can be used. Otherwise 往復.

 

[Elizabeth]

It's obvious that the Japanese sentence has a mistake. 周 is not an suitable word to use there. Unless the shape of the pool is round, but I doubt that.

ラップ can be used. Otherwise 往復.

Yes, thank you. I had only heard 往復 in that context as well, which was why I was confused -- but assuming this was written by a native speaker :?
Or, it could be that they were following near enough along the wall to consider it "around" ? Of course many personal pools are also built in a round or oval shape....

 

[Elizabeth]

It's obvious that the Japanese sentence has a mistake. 周 is not an suitable word to use there. Unless the shape of the pool is round, but I doubt that.

ラップ can be used. Otherwise 往復.

On second thought, I'm thinking it may have been more like an oval training/workout "marathon pool" in the shape of a track field ....if such places exist. We'll never know for sure now...

 

[studyonline]

ummm it could have been to swim around in the rectangle pool? That is such an odd picture, too anyway.

 

[henpai]

A couple weird terms...

Hello. I read around the useful threads in the forum, but couldn't find these two terms that have been puzzling me for a while.

First is ノーミソ, I can find this used in a billion blogs and such, and I deemed this Japanese net slang for the moment... Does anyone know the meaning for it?

Secondly is just CP in the middle of Japanese text. It could be Control Panel in some places, but that wouldn't make the least sense translated here... An example:

(clip)
N: 「何にもできねーよ！！」 (in the meaning of "What did I do to you to deserve this?" as far as I can see)
Y: 「ホワ～イ？？ 恥ずかしがることないネ？」
Y: 「キミラノーマルで微妙にオフィシャルＣＰデショ？！ 人気ないけど...」

Y is trying his best to be an immature idiot, he is N's father by the way. They are fictional characters and aware of it, and they use hard-to-understand language puns everywhere...

If anyone could help with either of these, I'd be very grateful!