Ah, I see now. Thanks, Epigene.
Ah, I see now. Thanks, Epigene.However, ってか is already an established colloquialism among young people, so you can use it as it is--especially if you belong to the under-40 crowd...
It makes sense to me, in Japanese at least, that for reporting the contents of your thoughts you would retain the present tense as it was experienced at the time of its occurance. Only the having of the thought is past, what was actually perceived is left as it was initially felt. Although with a verb present tense + 思った could be translated I thought that it would be (something)....undrentide: I saw in your post where you rewrote my example about tasting basashi, that you changed 「本当においしかったと思った」 into 「本当においしいと思った」
As I was writing it, I remember waffling back and forth between the past and present tense for おいしい. Why did you use it in this case? Are there rules for when to use past and when to use present?
undrentide: I saw in your post where you rewrote my example about tasting basashi, that you changed 「本当においしかったと思った」 into 「本当においしいと思った」
As I was writing it, I remember waffling back and forth between the past and present tense for おいしい. Why did you use it in this case? Are there rules for when to use past and when to use present?
どさり is onopatopoeia for the sound that something with weight is dropped on the ground. (Something not hard or rigid - something like human body, animal, bag of flours, sometimes heap of papers, books, etc.)Finally.. "どさりとよこになると" from the text below. Unfortunately I have no Kanji to provide as I retyped the entire short story as it was so I could print it out to study (with notes). However this is one of the phrases I can't make heads or tails of. Any ideas?
そして、くだくだに 草臥れていたので、兎穴の中の柔らかい砂の上に、
どさりとよこになると、目をつぶりました
日本人学生に、「月曜日働きますか？」というのは未来形じゃなくて、現在形の文だと教えられた。
なぜそれを言ったかと思います....
何の時を表す言葉を追加しなくても、未来形にもなってしまうことができると思いますけど。
この文を読んだだけで、未来形と現在形の区別がつかないでしょう。
今も月曜日働いているかもしれないし、未来も月曜日働くかもしれません。
状況やによって使い分けるものですね。。。
日本語の文法に未来形とか現在形というものが本当にあるかは、ちょっと疑問ですね。
はい。返事をしてくれてありがとうございます！そうですね、少なくとも英語のような時制という概念は文法としてはないような気がします。
どちらかというと、すでに完了しているかいないか、のふたつのような気がします。
「気がする」だけで正確なところはわかりませんけど・・・
どさり is onopatopoeia for the sound that something with weight is dropped on the ground. (Something not hard or rigid - something like human body, animal, bag of flours, sometimes heap of papers, books, etc.)
You can translate it as "thud" in English, I guess.
どさりとよこになる（どさりと横になる）＝どさり（という音を立てて）横になる
横になる means to lay oneself down. To lie down.
So the rabbit was very tired, it lied down, as if fallen onto the floor.
に can be used to list up things.あるところに、 4ひきの小さな兎がいました。名前は、
プロプシーに
モプシーに
カトンテールに
ビーターといいました。
Each name of the rabbits have the "に" after them. Does that have the meaning of "あるところに" as "(in) a certain time.."? That's as close as I can guess.
The sample sentence sounds very strange to me, as if a sentence translated from English word by word...Bの最初の発話はAの後半の繰り返しにした。
[Aの後半の繰り返しにした。]
I realize "ni shita" can mean "made into" but obviously that doesn't fit here. Is it something like "taisetsu ni shita"?
The sample sentence sounds very strange to me, as if a sentence translated from English word by word...
:emoji_blush:
I guess that
Bの最初の発話はAの後半の繰り返しにした。
can be rephrased as
Ｂは話し始めはAの話の後半を繰り返すことにした。
(Without the context I'm not sure how accurate my interpretation is. To me it sounds like people have to make some kind of speech in turn, and B is to speak after A. Maybe B is lazy or just did not have a clue how to start, so he decided to repeat what A mentioned in the latter part of his speech.)
It means literally "It isn't love." I'm assuming that's what you intended. But this word for love is like to be in love (have a romantic attachment), fall in love or having a passionate affair with (someone).I have one. what does "恋じゃない" mean. I think that's the right "koi". If not, I'm sorry for wasting your time.
すると石の下から斜に自分の方へ向いて青い茎が伸びて来た。すると石の下から斜に自分の方へ向いて青い茎が伸びて来た。
This sentence is separated into two phrases, by the word "向いて", however, I'm not sure if the nuance below exists in Japanese or not, so I'm a bit wondering how to properly see this sentence.
My gut tells me that this -te form is signifying
"(BY) facing toward me slantwise from underneath the stone, [a green stalk came growing]"
But, another part of me thinks it could also be read as:
"Facing toward my direction slantwise FROM beneath the stone, a green stalk came growing."
Once again I find myself thinking too hard, but sometimes it helps. Does anyone have a clear idea on how to see this?
It means literally "It isn't love." ... I'm not sure if it's natural or not for what you want to say as "koi desu."
すると石の下から斜に自分の方へ向いて青い茎が伸びて来た。
すると then
石の下から from beneath the stone
(so the root of this plant is under the stone)
斜に slanting
(there's some distance between "I" and the stone, so my face is not just above the stone, then when the plant extend itself towards me, that means the stalk cannot go straight upwards but slanting: see the attached image)
自分の方へ向いて in my direction, towards me,
青い茎が a green stalk
伸びて来た。 was stretching/extending/growing （来る here means it is coming towards the speaker, "come" is related to the point of the speaker's view.)
It has nothing to do with "where it is coming from".So just to clarify, "向いて" in this sense isn't stating that the stalk came out growing BY coming from under the stone.
私もそう思います。とても難しそうな本ですね。I considered at one point it might mean "decided" but it sounded so strange that I thought for sure that wasn't it. But it seems the more I provide examples to translate from this book the more I realize I might be studying from something I shouldn't be. It's a bit hard to find a good intermediate book I suppose. After completing Japanese for Busy People 1, 2 & 3, where I should go from there has always bothered me. Anyway, Sorry for going off track there. Thanks again Undrentide-san.