桃太郎などの伝統的な日本の物語に興味を持っています。それは、現在の日本人の価値観を形成するのに、大事な役割を果たしていたから。I'm looking for a word that means something like 'to create' or 'to shape the development of'--essentially a word that means to cause something to come into being.
What I want to say: I am interested in reading traditional stories like Momotarou because they have helped to shape Japanese values.
My attempt in Japanese:
桃太郎を初め、伝統的な日本の物語に興味を持っています。なぜかと言えば、現在の日本人の価値観を決定づけたんですから。
決定づける--> I have no confidence in this phrase as I just kind of stumbled upon it in my dictionary. Would this work here? If not, what would?
Also, how would I express the sentiment 'to help' in this context? I wouldn't say, in English anyway, that those stories 'shaped japanese' sense of values' because there are certainly other factors. How do I express that its one of several factors? Does adding something like ある程度まで at the beginning of sentence two work? Is there a smoother way, possibly by changing the verb somehow?
I don't think it is correct but at any rate I have not been exposed to it in that context and couldn't piece together your intended meaning....My alteration was entirely unconscious although out of proper JREF etiquette I probably should have asked if I'd thought of it.Thanks for the suggestion Elizabeth. Did you change をはじめ to など because of a correctness issue, a formality issue, or a personal preference issue? It seemed an appropriate sentence for the construction so I decided to try it out...
My experience has been with 大事な役割を果たす the difference is most often the common distinction found across grammar points and constructions that で refers to a place or activity occuring on a specified stage bounded by a specified space. In contrast, as you say, the "location" in に expresses the working towards or tendancy in the direction of a particular end state.The "AはB（に・で・において）大事な役割を果たす。" got a lot of hits in Jim Breem's online dictionary. I'll have to try to start using it when occassion merits (though such occassions are probably few and far between).
As best I can tell, using に vs で vs において after B (either a noun or nominalized verb) is based on the following
に A, working towards B
で A, working as a member of B (reminds me a bit of として in that its defining the role?)
It can substitute for で or に and was given a brief introduction here :において same as で except more formal and probably something I will never use unless I start publishing in academic journals/giving official speeches?
It's not particularly constructive, but they all sound good and equally natural to me.1) 佐々木さんは私の日本語の上達に大きな役割を果たしました。 --> this sounds better than below but my ear's not so good
（佐々木さんは私の日本語が上達するのに大きな役割を果たしました。）
2) 佐々木さんは国際交流協会の会議で大事な役割を果たしました。
Are these sentences correct and do they accurately illustrate the differences between the particles で and に in this construction?
The nuance of "mysteriously" is not so strong.
不思議と～になる is often used in Japanese,
but in most cases, it has little to do with mystery/supernatural phenomena.
I'd say it's more like "somehow".
"I don't know why, but somehow I'm feeling exhilarated."
I don't think it is correct but at any rate I have not been exposed to it in that context and couldn't piece together your intended meaning....My alteration was entirely unconscious although out of proper JREF etiquette I probably should have asked if I'd thought of it.
Oh, yes, I think it is fine. My apologies. I read it to some Japanese friends and they didn't understand. But now that I see the example sentence it makes absolute sense as a kind of "especially" or "in particular"....:sorry:I'm still a bit confused on this point. The goal is to highlight momotarou as one specific example of the larger group 'traditional japanese stories,' and I understand why など works here, but I don't understand why をはじめ wouldn't. It seems similar to the example sentence コンサートで歌手Aは最新のヒット曲を始め、25の新曲を歌った。
Using your corrections from earlier but replacing など with おはじめ, the sentence reads:
桃太郎をはじめ伝統的な日本の物語に興味を持っています。それは、現在の日本人の価値観を形成するのに、大事 な役割を果たしていたから。
Could anyone explain if/why this is incorrect? Thanks.
はじめ can be used to put something as an example.I'm still a bit confused on this point. The goal is to highlight momotarou as one specific example of the larger group 'traditional japanese stories,' and I understand why など works here, but I don't understand why をはじめ wouldn't. It seems similar to the example sentence コンサートで歌手Aは最新のヒット曲を始め、25の新曲を歌った。
Using your corrections from earlier but replacing など with おはじめ, the sentence reads:
桃太郎をはじめ伝統的な日本の物語に興味を持っています。それは、現在の日本人の価値観を形成するのに、大事 な役割を果たしていたから。
Could anyone explain if/why this is incorrect? Thanks.
roman_torkit;530618 said:Could you please help me type "I love Japanese girls" in kanji. I ended up with this: 私日本人の女の子が大好き. But I'm pretty sure this is not right.
Thank you
僕は日本人の女子が大好き！！
Hope that helped.
Domo Arigato, AichiAlex僕は日本人の女子が大好き！！
Hope that helped.
Did someone saw Gokusen (season I) Episode II?
in the beginning somewhere Matsumoto Jun saids something like: Nakama? nakama te kata ni janai yo or something: the subs were : Friends? don't use that word easily
(at lenght : 00 : 14:05 there you see Jun saying the phrase)
can someone help me please?
I heard 仲間仲間って簡単に言うんじゃねえよ。
Is this correct?
Because the translation of 仲間仲間って簡単に言うんじゃねえよ。 =
nakama nakama tte kantan ni iu njaneeyo
(and how do you say this? (teh kantan nii un janee joo?)
(and how do you say this? (teh kantan nii un janee joo?)
Zen Hisae. But proper nouns in Kanji can be pronounced in so many different ways, so you're never 100% sure about it. :emoji_thumbsup:Hello,
Would anybody here know how to pronounce this name?
善久惠
I couldn't find it in Jim Breen's name dictionary. Thank you!
I googled it, but not a single hit!!! Like I said you are never 100% sure about names, unless they're common names like Tanaka, Suzuki, etc.Hello,
Thank you for the reply, but the name above is a single name, not a full name.
Are you really sure it's a single name?? A surname or a given name?:clueless:
?S???̕c???i?????j?P?P????善 Zen, Miyoshi
善久 Yoshihisa, Zenhisa, Zenku
Are you really sure it's a single name?? A surname or a given name?