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Buntaro said:
Elvira,
A "teinei na kotoba" is a polite word. The example is asking you to replace the word いいます with a more polite word. You are given the word もうします as a hint of what to replace it with.
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Yes, I think it is saying make the "word in parentheses" for the following sentences more polite.
 
Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could translate into both kanji/kana and romaji a phrase to the effect of "I wish we had said more to each other years ago". Thanks a million times over in advance.
 
Alright people I need a little bit of help again. Here is what I am trying to say:
"Mrs. Countryman(Teacher), sorry! I just realized that I wrote annoying twice. I am an idiot and don't pay attention. Haha. Yes, I know kanji is very important but there are too many! Hope you are having fun on your summer break.
-Tsuyoshi (My class name)"

先生、ごめんなさい！
今、煩いは二遍書くが気づく。
私は馬鹿と注意を払くない。haha (this one is probably way off)
はい、漢字がとっても大切知る。でも、(don't know how to say too many)が有る。
夏休みで楽しいがありますよ！(not really sue about this one either)
-強
 

I have changed the expressions here and there so that it would sound more natural.

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カントリーマン先生、ごめんなさい！
I am sorry, Mrs. Countryman!

"Annoying"って二度書いたことに今気が付きました。
I just realized that I wrote the word "annoying" twice. (That's what the original sentence meant, right?)

僕は馬鹿で、いつも注意が足りません。
I am an idiot and I never pay enough attention.

漢字がとても大切だということはわかっています。でも たくさんありすぎます！
I do understand that Kanji is very important... but there are just too many!

楽しい夏休みを過ごしてください。
Please have a fun summer break.
 
AKSHIKAGAさん、ありがとう！
I guess I really need to get more in the habit of "Japanizing" my English sentences, because the way you word them makes it so much easier to think about writing. I guess I try and match the sentences exactly when that is not necessary.
And I do not mean any offense by saying "Japanizing." I just don't know what else to say...haha.
 
houserichichi said:
Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could translate into both kanji/kana and romaji a phrase to the effect of "I wish we had said more to eachother years ago". Thanks a million times over in advance.
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I don't know what feeling you're going for here or the situation involved....but maybe something like 数年前に（何年も前に）、お互いに、もう少し言いさえすればよかったなあ。
 
Hello,

How can I say in Japanese the following sentence:

If you have any questions related to translation of words, phrases and sentences from and to Japanese, please ask them in this thread.

Thanks,
Yevgeny
 
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Elizabeth, thank you very much!! I'm competent with the hiragana but am unsure which of the kanji readings to use were I to write it out romaji style. Think you could give me a hand with that? Looking like a bunch of on-readings but I don't know which ones correspond to which words.

Please excuse, very beginner in the language but making an attempt to learn it formally!
 
shinza said:
Hope it helps a little bit... a little curious...how is this person related to you if any? sounds like a nice person
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Thanks so much shinza! This person and I share a common great-great grandfather, so...that makes us some sort of distant cousin. His great-grandfather (Kamenoshin) and mine (Matsuzou) are brothers.
 
数年前に（何年も前に）、お互いに、もう少し言いさえ すればよかったなあ。

--> Su nen mae ni (nan nen mo mae ni), o *i ni, mou sukoshi iesae suraba yokatta na.

(I don't know *.)
 
Hello,
I was wondering about a word I saw in a manga that I couldn't find in any dictionary a searched: 出そう

Beforehand, thanks for the help.
 

Excellent, thank you so much! I am learning the kanji now but am having a tough time figuring out when to use each reading and which on/kun reading goes with which English word.

cokesmoke said:
Hello,
I was wondering about a word I saw in a manga that I couldn't find in any dictionary a searched: 出そう
Beforehand, thanks for the help.
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Google translator gives me "those surveyed".
 
cokesmoke said:
I was wondering about a word I saw in a manga that I couldn't find in any dictionary a searched: 出そう.
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Babylon translates it as follows:

出す
v. (Hira=だす) send; hold out; extend, reach out; expose, issue, publish; display, present; produce; pay, contribute, invest; serve; exert

Probably the form 出そう means "let's send", "let's hold out" etc.
 
cokesmoke said:
Hello,
I was wondering about a word I saw in a manga that I couldn't find in any dictionary a searched: 出そう
Beforehand, tnx for the help.
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When I checked Jim Breen, the site said 出＝で and when i searched でそう it gave me another form of である which is a literary form of to be. So...

im confused
 
cokesmoke said:
Hello,
I was wondering about a word I saw in a manga that I couldn't find in any dictionary a searched: 出そう
Beforehand, thanks for the help.
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Both interpretation, yevgeny-san's and Kyle-san's, are correct. It has two possibilities.

1) 出そう(だそう); the invitation/intention form of the transitive verb 出す(だす)
"let's send", "let's hold out", "I'll send", "I'll hold out"....

2) 出そう(でそう); the guess form of the intransitive verb 出る(でる)
"it seems to be out", "it almost appears"....

yevgeny said:
Hello,
How can I say in Japanese the following sentence:
If you have any questions related to translation of words, phrases and sentences from and to Japanese, please ask them in this thread.
Thanks,
Yevgeny
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単語、語句、文章等の日本語訳、あるいは日本語からの翻訳に関して何か質問があれば、このスレッドでお聞きください。
 
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Hello!

I was looking at this sentence someone made in japanese and trying to correct it. Now i know it is probably not natural at all seeing as the person got it from an online translator, but here it is:

時々生命は堪えがたい
tokidoki seimei wa taeru gatai

I think the thought behind it was. Sometimes life is hard to deal with(bear).


So to fix this I think I'd say
時々生命はがたく（Adv. form of gatai) 堪える。
OR
時々生命（を、が）堪えるの（こと？）はがたい（です）

Probably getting this totally wrong
But I thought I'd ask and see what can be learned.
Also, I didn't want to make a new post for such a petty question so I'm

just posting here.
ありがと！
 
生命（せいめい）or 命（いのち） = Life、as in "He lost his life trying to save a baby seal."

人生（じんせい） = Life, as in "I have never seen a more adorable baby seal in my life!"

In this case, the word you want is 人生.

時々、人生は耐えがたい（ものです）。
"Sometimes, life is unbearable."
 
Ah!
Thanks so much Ashikaga-san!
Yes jinsei seems to fit better.
I am unfamiliar with mono, so ill probably wait until that comes up in my textbook.
 
I learned a new word " 殿 " recently,to whom & what circumstances do Japanese use it to address persons in contact ( online or corresponses etc ) ?

I know general usages are " さん' " ちゃん " " 君 " & " 樣 ".
 
Tokapi窶彗

It is an archaic honorific reserved for men of certain social status. I have never used it in my life. The only instance that I can think of where one might see it used these days in everyday life is on 賞状（しょうじょう）, award certificates, where the recipient's name is followed by 殿, pronounced "dono".

According to Wiki, the word was originally used to address the person next in line to the emperor (the vice-emperor? lol). From that, it became an honorific used for people of higher social ranks.
Its meaning has "softened" a lot over time and these days, it can be replaced by 様 without any problem.
 
Can someone help me translate what these phrases mean?:
世界は終わるまでは、離れることもない。。そう願っていた、幾千の夜と、戻らない時だけが、何故輝いては？やつれ切った、心までを壊す、はかなき思い！

は子供の時に戻りたい！.

Thank you!
 

Sounds like something a teenage girl would scribble in her diary... or a lyric of a bad J-pop song. Either way, I think you have quoted it wrong. It doesn't make much sense the way it is. Check your source and post it again.
 


Ashikaga-san,thanks for your prompt answer and clarification.


I know 殿 was typically used as in " 殿下 " for Your Majesty or His Royal Highness ( usually someone of royal status ) in Chinese language but never by itself.So,the word caught my attention as I was reading someone's ( native Japanese ) blog in her responded comments by addressed those individuals ... abc殿 or xyz殿.
 
ASHIKAGA said:
Sounds like something a teenage girl would scribble in her diary... or a lyric of a bad J-pop song. Either way, I think you have quoted it wrong. It doesn't make much sense the way it is. Check your source and post it again.
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You're right! That's from "世界が終わるまでは…" by WANDS.
世界が終わるまでは～ は～な～れ～る～事～もな～い
 
Grammar lesson : がたい is found attached as a stem to the -masu form of the verb 忘れがたい、捨てがたい。。。 On usage, though, it's pretty darn strong.

The way I've been told, something has to be intensely difficult to execute, bordering on the flat-out impossible. Think of a time when "にくい" isn't quite doing it for you, then try to remember there is a がたい。
 
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