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二ヶ月 usually means duration but when used with 目, ヶ月 is not line (duration) but point.
二ヶ月目 is the second month (counting from the beginning).
Yeah. It would be repetitive. Because ordinals identify position in a list or set of objects, but rank of age is already unique from the cardinal number.
二ヶ月目 What I don't get is a combination of a duration number + ~~nd/th. The second of two months ???
As Chidoriashi-san explained, 知る由（よし）もない means "someone has no way of knowing something," and まい is the euphonic change of an archaic auxiliary verb まじ which expresses the speaker's negative (certain) supposition, きっと～でないだろう/～のはずがない. Thus, 知るよしもあるまい is same as きっと/絶対知らないだろう or 知っているはずがない, "I'm sure someone has no way of knowing something."知るよしもあるまい。 is this like a complex way of saying "do not know''?
この娘が見せかけ通りの姿かわかったもんじゃありませんよッ
I had to ponder about this out for awhile, the "見せかけ通り" portion. Hopefully someone can shed some light on what this word's definition is. My idea at the moment is that it means this:
1. 見せかけ通り = Exactly as it is. [being falsely portrayed/posed as]
This girl, who's appearance is falsely being portrayed, isn't cute at all!
That's my take on the rough translation. Hopefully I am not too far off.
Please let me know. Thank you.
As Chidoriashi-san explained, 知る由（よし）もない means "someone has no way of knowing something," and まい is the euphonic change of an archaic auxiliary verb まじ which expresses the speaker's negative (certain) supposition, きっと～でないだろう/～のはずがない. Thus, 知るよしもあるまい is same as きっと/絶対知らないだろう or 知っているはずがない, "I'm sure someone has no way of knowing something."
私がここにいるなんて、彼は知るよしもあるまい。 ＝ 私がここにいるなんて、彼はきっと/絶対知らないだろう。
wakarikkonai I think is colloquial for "wakaru waku ga nai/wakaru hazu ga nai."As Chidoriashi-san explained, 知る由（よし）もない means "someone has no way of knowing something," and まい is the euphonic change of an archaic auxiliary verb まじ which expresses the speaker's negative (certain) supposition, きっと～でないだろう/～のはずがない. Thus, 知るよしもあるまい is same as きっと/絶対知らないだろう or 知っているはずがない, "I'm sure someone has no way of knowing something."
私がここにいるなんて、彼は知るよしもあるまい。 ＝ 私がここにいるなんて、彼はきっと/絶対知らないだろう。
見せ掛け通りの姿か わかった もんじゃ ありません （わかったものではない、わからない）
I would translate it as "Who knows if this girl is really what she pretends to be" or "I highly doubt that this girl is what she wants us to think she is".
This does my mind in, totally.I think, those words (nanimo, dokomo, and daremo) are more like anything, anywhere, and anybody in English.
That's exactly わ + 濁点; voiced consonant mark. It's an interjection to show the speaker is more strongly surprised than when s/he says わー！！, and is sometimes used especially in manga.Okay, I've got another one of those hiragana characters with a voiced mark after it that doesn't usually have one. This time, it's わ. It appears to go ってわ'- !! (or it could be つて わ'- !!; they seem to use a full-size tsu for the small one.) Since it's a male speaker, I'm inclined not to think that it's the femine particle wa.
でも would be more appropriate for some cases.;-)Either any~~or everything, everywhere and everybody...:?
I think, those words (nanimo, dokomo, and daremo) are more like anything, anywhere, and anybody in English. For example, 「家(いえ)には誰(だれ)もいなかった。」 means that there's not anybody in the house. Of course, you can say "there's nobody in the house" too in this case. But "daremo" and "dokomo" can also be used in affirmative sentences like 「誰もが参加(さんか)できる。」(Anyone can take part), while "nanimo" is used only in negative sentences.
NTT Docomo, the largest mobile phone operator in Japan, was named after that "dokomo", meaning that you can make a call from anywhere, while the company officially describes its name as an acronym of "DO COmmunications over the MObile network".
I think of those as more the ~~any's...but, yeah, the overlap...That's exactly わ + 濁点; voiced consonant mark. It's an interjection to show the speaker is more strongly surprised than when s/he says わー！！, and is sometimes used especially in manga.
でも would be more appropriate for some cases.;-)
なんでも、どこでも、誰でも、、、
Tae Kim's site has the explanation.So -ka means a specific object, but uncertain. (Something, someone, somewhere)
While mo means "any", also uncertain? (anything, anyone, anywhere)
Oh right, nanimo is only used for negative sentences.
Yeah, depending on the context, as always.I think of those as more the ~~any's...but, yeah, the overlap...
Tae Kim's site has the explanation.
Note:
As pocopoco-san wrote, 誰も can be used also in an affirmative sentence with the particle が, but 誰でも might be more common in these days.
誰もが参加できる。 ＝ 誰でも参加できる。
（×誰も参加できる。）
Yeah, depending on the context, as always.
わかりません is simply a polite form of わからない, thus, they are quite the same in meaning.Thank you very much for the explanation. I always come across these -demo suffixes, and now I know why.
As far as I know, わからない means "to not know", whereas わかりません means "to not understand". What's the reason behind this? I think the same root word is used. However, differing suffixes gave them different meanings. What is special about the suffix -nai for it to change the meaning of the word?
I might understand things wrongly as of now, so please bear with me.
Thank you very much.