1. what does shiyagaru (or maybe it was "shagaru") mean? i see it in manga too.
2. what does "sorya ma- na" mean?
3. gakkou ikunakucha! (what does that mean?)
thanks in advance
I have to go = ikanaraba naranai / ikanaraba ikemasen (I must go)-the last is probably ikAnakucha and is a shortened way of saying 'I have to.../I must...'
-sorya is a contraction of sore wa
I think...though I have been slightly off on most of my recent attempts at helping.
Other members already gave you good explanation, so here's something additional.1. what does shiyagaru (or maybe it was "shagaru") mean? i see it in manga too.
2. what does "sorya ma- na" mean?
3. gakkou ikunakucha! (what does that mean?)
I wonder why everyone will keep this thread forever going on. Why not open a new thread?I need some help with a couple things, so thanks in advance!
1) Can someone translate this paragraph? Two many things going on, I can't pull it together...
アメリカでの本陣の野球選手がユニフォームの後ろに付ける名前を自分の名前にしたのをまねして、他のアメリカ人の選手たちが家族の名前を止めて自分のの前をつけたところ、同じ名前がありすぎて後ろ姿では誰が誰だか分からなくなってしまったという笑えるテレビの広告がありました。
Are run on sentences like this okay in Japanese? Anyway, can't quite figure out the meaning--help!
2) 一つ一つの漢字に意味があるからこそ、親も願いを込めてわが子の名前を付けるのではないでしょうか？
In the above sentene, what does hitotsu hitotsu mean?
3) 子供にナメをtsけるの葉親の最初の仕事です。その「仕事」の中身は、時代によって違ってくるようです。人気がある名前は時代 （ ） 移り変わるのです。
（ ） の中に適当な語句を入れなさい
１） とともに ２） にしたがって ３） について ４） にさきだって
In the above question, it says the answer is とともに, but in my grammar book, it says then in this usage of とともに it is identical to にしたがって. Why is the answer 1 and not 2? I know why its not 3 and have no idea what 4 means, if anything...I am really having trouble telling the difference between にしたがって、 とともに、につれて、に沿って、に伴って、 but they keep coming up in ambiguous test questions...
We had a funny TV advertisement. One MLB player had his first name on the back of his uniform. Other players thought it was a good idea, so they replaced their family names on their uniforms by their first names. It ended up confusing, because there are too many identical names to recognize who's who only by seeing their backs!アメリカでの本陣の野球選手がユニフォームの後ろに付ける名前を自分の名前にしたのをまねして、他のアメリカ人の選手たちが家族の名前を止めて自分のの前をつけたところ、同じ名前がありすぎて後ろ姿では誰が誰だか分からなくなってしまったという笑えるテレビの広告がありました。
Did you try looking them up yourself anywhere first ?I have a question about the meanings of a few words. all these mean "feelings":
気持ち
感じ
気分
and i am sure there are probably more. could someone tell me the difference between the three? it would be greatly appreciated.
-thx
To be honest, I can't imagine I could find out the difference between those 3 words looking them up on my own. Maybe in the J-J part of my electronic dictionary, but even then...
My 'feelings' on the three words:
kibun= I don't see this one that often. My dictionary says mood, but i usually see kigen.
kanji= pretty standard way of describing your feelings or impressions. you can feel an earthquake, that someone is acting cold towards you, etc.
kimochi= feelings/emotions; 'kimochi ii' (it feels good) is the one you'll hear the most. Referring to feelings on the whole, I generally hear kanjou?
Actually all of my dictionaries give slightly different descriptions for the three.To be honest, I can't imagine I could find out the difference between those 3 words looking them up on my own. Maybe in the J-J part of my electronic dictionary, but even then...
My 'feelings' on the three words:
kibun= I don't see this one that often. My dictionary says mood, but i usually see kigen.
kanji= pretty standard way of describing your feelings or impressions. you can feel an earthquake, that someone is acting cold towards you, etc.
kimochi= feelings/emotions; 'kimochi ii' (it feels good) is the one you'll hear the most. Referring to feelings on the whole, I generally hear kanjou?
It literally means women in the second half of twenties and you need to take it as it is. Personally, I think of women aged 25-29.How do you read this:
２０代後半の女性
Does it mean women above their mid twenties but below 30? Is it more exact (ie women 25-30)? Or something else?
It is used here to mean "percentages spread reasonably among the blood types" (probably based on the general ratios of blood types in various countries). The term itself is vague, and you need to use your imagination!Also, what does ほどよく mean, as shown in this sentence?
血液型による性格判断が日本ほどはやっている国はありません。日本にはA型４０％、０型３０％、B型２０％、AB型１０％の全部の血液型の人がほどよくいます。
how about そう。 i heard party of japanese people at work say it like, a million times. they talk and id hear, "そうです"
Right!Ahh, thanks a lot. A vague term--sounds fun!
Um, one last thing: ２０だいこうはん？ Is that how you pronounce the reading?
Hee, there's this japanese exchange student in Joensuu high school, and I kinda want to go and talk to her. So how do you say: "You're that japanese exchange student, right? I'm Sara, Eve's friend. Thank you for that candy. What do you think of Finland, for now? I don't really speak japanese that well so can we speak in english?"
I'm pretty sure that you already know that にこりと笑う means to "smile (usually with the corners of the mouth upturned)."じゃ、私の顔が見えるかいと一心に聞くと、見えるかいって、そら、そこに、写ってるじゃありませんかと、にこりと笑って見せた。
I've posted the above sentence in its entirety to provide the full context.
My question concerns the phrase: にこりと笑って見せた。
Nikori = smilingly
waratte = smile/laugh
miseru = show
Now, I'm not sure why there are two completely different words here for "smile", or how "miseru" influences the meaning of this phrase. I know miseru as to "show something". So the person is showing the other person (something), as to what I am not positive. If anyone could shed some light on this I would greatly appreciate it. It's the last one I have concerning this large text I've been studying for awhile now.
A brief one:
懐かしい響き
Although literally it is reference to sound, I assume this phrase is taken to mean feelings of nostalgia? Or is less than that like just feelings of missing something?
I think it means "a person of my caliber" implicitly suggesting that the person has very high self-regard or, when used satirically, to be deliberately self-deprecating.Here's a phrase I've heard recently and can't make any sense of:
僕クラス
It seems to be commonly followed by になると and variations thereof, but beyond that, no amount of web scouring is giving me any explanation that I can understand. All I've found are blog entries where people used the phrase, but every one is used in entirely different contexts, so I can't even pick up any kind of pattern to guess on.
Is anyone familiar with 僕クラス（になると）? Any ideas would be appreciated!