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何より 【なにより】 (adj-na,adv,exp,n) most; best; above all;
より (adv,prt) (1) from; out of; since; than; (2) other than; (3) more; (4) more than; (P)

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Dutch Baka said:
I would like to know what 何よりです means? I know 何 means what, and です is, but what does より means?
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In addition to ポールsan's comment, you could take a look at ALC for its usage. It's commonly used in a polite conversation.
 
Cue said:
In addition to ポールsan's comment, you could take a look at ALC for its usage. It's commonly used in a polite conversation.
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WWWJDIC has example sentences too.

Roughly speaking ALC has more sentences but those in WWWJDIC are better indexed. (ALC uses pure text search, なに won't find sentences with 何 or vice versa).
 
I was hoping I could have someone verify my translations for these two simple sentences. I'm not positive I have them right, so any help would be greatly welcome.

夜ピアノをひくな、静かにしろとうるさく言う管理人。
"A manager who speaks noisily, telling me not to play piano at night and to be quiet." (I'm guessing the "と" from "静かにしろと" Is quoting the phrase before it and not meaning "and" as in "tells me to be quiet AND speaks noisily."

出したらしまえと言っているのに、言われたとおりにし ない子共。
"A child who, even though I say (if you are going to turn in your homework, finish it --not sure at all on this dasuShimae part--), won't do exactly as I say."

:emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
 
Your interpretation is correct, including と which indeed means quotation.
出す here means the same as 取り出す, to take something (maybe toys in this context) out of box, shelf, etc.
しまえ is imperative form of しまう, meaning to put away.
Literal translation is:
"A child to whom I'm telling to put away the toys he take out (from the closet, box, etc but would not do what he was told."
(Put away implies of course that "once the child finish playing with the toys".)
Hope this helps.
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To add to undrentide's post:

In more precise terms, うるさく言う doesn't mean to speak noisily (i.e., loudly) but is closer in meaning to "nag" (to speak or issue orders incessantly).

Just FYI!!
 

Ah, that makes perfect sense. I hadn't considered shimae to mean "put away". Thank you very much Undrentide :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

"うるさく言う doesn't mean to speak noisily (i.e., loudly) but is closer in meaning to "nag" (to speak or issue orders incessantly)."

That's a good clarification. So I guess it's become sort of a common phrase to mean something a bit different. Thanks for putting that in. :bravo:
 
Hi guys. Can someone kindly explain to me かたちをする?

For example here is some context:

とても下品なかたちをした下品な島です。
 
Apple Bomb said:
Hi guys. Can someone kindly explain to me かたちをする?
For example here is some context:
とても下品なかたちをした下品な島です。
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かたち means shape.
かたちをした is equivalent to かたちの. ___ shaped.
e.g.
りんごのかたちをしたクッキー
りんごのかたちのクッキー
Apple-shaped cookies.
 
教えてくれてありがとうございます。それはそうだと思ったけど、「下品の形」ということはちょっとアブストラクトみたいなので、すぐに分かりませんでした。下品な形の島というのは何か醜い島でしょうね。
 
"Vulgar shaped island"...
どんなかたちかあまり想像したくない島ですね。
:emoji_blush:
 
Minna Konnichiwa

I wanted help with translating this Romanji Pharse

fukai manazashi kara hotobashiru Melodi
ore no kioku no soko masaguri kaki midashita

deai ga shirano kimyo ni uzuku yokan
are ga futari no shukumei touketometeru ima

yurushi aenai tomadoi mayoi komete
musubareteru kakushi gowa kizuna de
wakari au yori shinjiaeru hou ga ii
sono kokoro bae hageshii mama de itekure

I need the translation fo this song Please
Minna onegai

Sayonara
 
MikeM said:
what does this say?

ﾀﾞｲﾅｰ大好き

thanks.
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～大好き means I like ___ very much/I love___.
ダイナー is diner or Diner, without context I don't know what exactly it refers to.
(There's possibility that it is a proper name, too.)
 
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yugioh and my art

hey guys.... i am trying to learn japanese but i work alot so its slow.....i watch and play alot of yugioh and i draw my own manga. so i have a quick question.... how would your write Sektmet Ra in kanji or katana?

thanx if anyone can help a bizzy artist...
 
I would write "se+ku+to+me+to ra" as "セクトメトラ" in katakana (not katana, that's something else ).

As far as I know, in Japanese one can't write foreign names in Kanji.
 
Hi guys ... I'm confused about the meaning of "彼女" here. Given the below context, does it mean "she" or "girlfriend." It's hard for me to figure out!

Thank you for your help!

今回は、いろいろトラブル発生。。
①彼女の友達がドタキャン
②彼女のビンニングのベルトが高速道路（長野道）飛んでった。後続車なくてよかった。。
③スキー場が激さむ（－６℃）

まあ、それにしてもうちの彼女はうまいわ・・・
女の子なのにグランドで180はこなすわ、プレスはするわ、
今は、オーリー→ノーズプレス→ノーリー270練習してます。
なかなか侮れないですよ・・・・
 
Well basically nobody is introduced who is female so (unless you have missed something before the above quoted) then it's "girlfriend" not "she".
 
sektmet

Kennin said:
I would write "se+ku+to+me+to ra" as "セクトメトラ" in katakana (not katana, that's something else : ).
As far as I know, in Japanese one can't write foreign names in Kanji.
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Oh thanks... and sorry about the misspelling of katakana.... i was rushing off of lunch break and had to get off my laptop....lol :emoji_blush:
 
Can I get some help translating this paragraph?


今年Minoruは年女。そう、いのしし年でございます。
猪突猛進のごとく今年もつっぱしる予定でございます。

って、なんかこんなあいさつ文いろんなところでゆってるな～。


So far what I understand is it's going on about being a one-year veteran of something.
 

It's about Chinese Zodiac. There are twelve animals to represent each year,
which are called 十二支（じゅうにし）, and each animal of year is 干支（えと）.
2007 is year of wildboar. So this year people born in the year of wildboar are
年男（としおとこ） "man of year"
年女（としおんな） "woman of year"

It is believed (not by everyone but some) that people has the similar nature that the Eto of their year has.
猪突猛進（ちょとつもうしん） means to rush like a wildboar (i.e. rush ruthlessly, or go headlong into something.)

今年Minoruは年女。そう、いのしし年でございます。
This year Minoru (= the writer) is woman of year. Yes, (I belong to) the year of wild boar.

猪突猛進のごとく今年もつっぱしる予定でございます。
As rush-like-a-wild-boar, I intend to run.
(*run here means not about jogging or running but her behaviour in general in her daily life.)

って、なんかこんなあいさつ文いろんなところでゆってるな～。
so I write greetings like this in many places...

Sorry if my explanation is confusing. Hope it helps a bit for your understanding of the text.
:emoji_blush::emoji_blush:
 
つるにかかっているわなをといてやりました.

Can you translate this sentence?

かかっている
といて
And what are the normal form of this verbs? With and without kanji please.
 
It's a bit odd. Are you sure you don't have わな and つる in the wrong places?

鶴に掛かっている罠を解いてやりました。
I disarmed the trap set on the crane.

罠に掛かっている鶴を解いてやりました。
I freed the crane from the trap that it was caught in.

鶴 【つる】 crane (bird) (Gruidae family); (P)

掛かる 【かかる】 (v5r,vi) (1) to take; (v5r) (2) to hang; (v5r) (3) to arrive; (v5r) (4) to come under (a contract, a tax); (v5r) (5) to start (engines, motors); (v5r) (6) to attend, to deal with, to handle; (v5r,aux-v) (7) to have started to; to be on the verge of; (v5r,aux-v) (8) to (come) at; (P)

解く 【とく】 (v5k,vt) to solve; to answer; to untie; (P)
 
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