"The thing that shows (or simply 'what expresses') the appearance of the blooming of flowers from south to north along the Japanese archipelago with a line is the sakura frontline."Fuumei said:Thanks. Unfortunately I can't type hirigana and the rest currently with my setup. Anyway, I've been staring at this thing all day and my mind is really foggy I guess.
With what you said in mind, how would you write that sentence out in english? Glenn did a good job, but I think he left out the "de" portion. I'm still a bit confused on how that ties in with "arawashita mono". Sorry, I hope I don't get you all angry. I'm a bit dissapointed in myself for not being able to understand it alone. But, it can't be helped.
Elizabeth said:"The thing that shows (or simply 'what expresses') the appearance of the blooming of flowers from south to north along the Japanese archipelago with a line is the sakura frontline."
"The sakura frontline is the thing that expresses in a line the appearance of the blooming of flowers from south to north along the Japanese archipelago."
Think of it as a response to a total Japanese novice traveling very leisurely from Febuary to May south to north through the countryside seeing cherry blossoms for the first time and asking how that concept is represented in the language and on a map ? The thing that expresses [it] is with a line called the sakura zensen....Fuumei said:Thank you all for your help. I'll study what your answers and get this to work. Thanks again.
Apple Bomb said:Hi, I was trying to read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in Japanese and came across a few things I was wondering about. If anyone can help me clear up one or two of them that would be amazing!
考えみれば。。。If you can think about it? This was obviously always followed by something else.
考えず I seem to remember zu being a replacement for "nai" in some dialect or something. But Mei Kashihara says it. Am I totally off here?
大きな 小さな I've seen this a lot, but they're 'i" adjectives. So why the "na"?
Sorry if these are dumb questions.
I concur with KrazyKat, although on occasion you will see the 考えずに pattern without the に.KrazyKat said:probably: 考えてみれば The -te miru form - to try(give something a go)
考えずに like: ないで to mean without doing. The most common way to say this.
Yup, they are na adjectives too. There is also okashii and okashi na, and probably some others.
っす is used in the sporting world a lot, like when talking about sumo. At least that's what I remember hearing from a friend -- and that it reminded him of speaking as a child.Glenn said:I think that's probably っす, and it's used as an abbreviation for です. There's a post about it here that explains it's formation rules.
「ないで」より、「ずに」の方がちよっと堅い言い方だとおもいます。（硬い感じがします）。KrazyKat said:It explains what its about on this site
日本語資源 - Nihongoresources.com
under:
2.1.1.4. Negative perfect
Its not actually an abbreviation, and isn't a dialect. I think anyone can use it and its fairly common.
KrazyKat said:The typo was probably in the blog itself.
Kama said:How to say: integration in Japanese? Both noun and adjective.
I wouldn't say the absence of racial discrimination equates very well with integration into a society. One common way to put assimilation or literally "melting into" a place would be 社会に溶け込む。Glenn said:I was going to say that that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a typo. The henkan misses are the worst: if you aren't familiar with the word you could end up on a wild goose chase looking for something that doesn't exist. It seems that for the general meaning either 合併 or 融合 are what you want. If you mean integration into a society, then it's 人種的無差別待遇 (じんるいてきむさべつたいぐう).
Hi, Kama ! In the context of political integration in the EU (欧州連合), these are the terms you are looking for.Kama said:it's like European integration etc.
Thanks.