You're right! "Hodo" just means "approximately." "Kan" just points to the span in time.J44xm said:「四月から二年ほど日本に住むつもりです。」
Is this sentence correct? (It's supposed to mean "From April, I intend to live in Japan for two years.") I found another word to use as "for" in "for two years," but I left my nihongo binder in a friend's car （くそっ！） and don't remember what it is. (Something like 「かん」?) Anyway, I figure 「ほど」 might work too. 本当にそうですか。
日本滞在中、J44xm さんには私たちが外国人のような気がしなかったらいいですね。J44xm said:どうもありがとう、ｅｐｉｇｅｎｅさん。嬉しいです！
具体的とビニールは辞書に載っているはずですが 具体的はconcrete/tangibleでビニールはvinylです。Apple Bomb said:言葉が三つあるだけです。英語で何の意味か分かる人は私に告げたら、うれしくなります。そしてこの文法はすごく悪かったら、助けてください。
間宮中尉 具体的 ビニール
ありがとうございます！
ありがとう。KrazyKat said:具体的とビニールは辞書に載っているはずですが 具体的はconcrete/tangibleでビニールはvinylです。
中尉は軍のランクです。 英語でＦｉｒｓｔ Ｌｉｅｕｔｅｎａｎｔになります。 それで間宮はたぶん誰かの名前です。 読みは「まみや」かもしれません。
Hachiro said:I am looking for some assistance and thought that maybe someone here could assist me.....
I am trying to find an understandable kanji for "Eternal King" or 永遠王、(eien Oh)
I would like to know if these kanji are readable as they are? I have been told that they are not understandable as they are to the average reader.
Could anyone out there be of assistance please. Thanks ahead of time for your help.
Also what about this one in the image? Is it a better choice?
Would this be understandable as it is written?
epigene said:Hachiro-san,
If you were to show the two of them to me very suddenly, I certainly would find them strange and barely understandable.
You may already know that Japanese is context-based, and it is difficult to translate without background information.
However, if you are trying to "coin" a new term to be used as a proper noun, I think anything goes.
I agree with you that Chinese would be most appropriate if his idea of the tatoo is maybe two or three kanji characters. All the Japanese terms for "Eternal King" that comes to my mind (lacking the creativity of a copywriter) is too long for tatoo...Hachiro said:I suggested that he try Chinese instead of Japanese because the translation would not be what he is looking for. I also informed him that just about anything he came up with like this would be "ateji"
Thanks for taking the time to consider this one....he is a link to a picture of the tattoo that he has designed.epigene said:I agree with you that Chinese would be most appropriate if his idea of the tattoo is maybe two or three kanji characters. All the Japanese terms for "Eternal King" that comes to my mind (lacking the creativity of a copywriter) is too long for tattoo...:emoji_blush:
Niheidebiru epigene, I will pass all of these along to him as well. I appreciate your assistance.epigene said:The image looks nice. And most Japanese will probably understand the meaning (if explained).
But, it might be at first glance viewed as Chinese rather than Japanese. I think it would be acceptable if a Chinese speaker thinks it looks OK.
Speaking from the Japanese perspective, 恒 I think is permanence in the way that something is always there, such as 恒星 (a star in fixed position) and 恒久平和 (everlasting peace).
Just for your information, I thought up a couple of words for "eternal":
不滅 (fumetsu) / 無窮 (mukyu) / 千年(sennen, meaning millenium but can suggest a sense of eternity)
This is about what I could think of... Others may have better ideas...
Apple Bomb said:ありがとう。
そしてKrazy Katが大好きです。
KrazyKat said:
告白されて 凄く嬉しくなりました。
でもね Ａｐｐｌｅさんのことなにも知りませんね。 Ａｐｐｌｅさんも本当に私のこと何も知りませんし。 会ったばかりですもんね。 私のこともっと知ったら また言ってみてね。
I get the impression that this would mean more like, "Next time, it might be good to (go) someplace with fewer people." In other words, where there are fewer "other" people outside of your group.Glenn said:1) "It'd probably be better if there were fewer of us next time."
I had 次回は人がもっと少ないところの方がいいかもしれんね。or something like that (I don't remember exactly). Does that do an adequate job of getting the meaning across? What would be a more natural way to say it?
This strikes me as one of those things where an explanation is required outside of the question itself. Is this something you want to say, or write someplace. I would probably do it differently for each case, but something like this might suffice:2) "I don't know the different levels of drunkenness in Japanese."
For this one I went with 日本語の酔いの程度を知らんが and there was more after that. I meant to express that I don't know the different words in Japanese for "buzzed," "drunk," and "f-ed up." Is this attempt worth anything?
Glenn said:1) 次回は人がもっと少ないところの方がいいかもしれんね。
2) 日本語の酔いの程度を知らんが