Elizabeth
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- 22 Apr 2003
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I bet you're right. At least it makes sense in both languages.
I saw the poor style romaji of "You Pack" first .... with a missing "r" for "Your Pack" haha .... so English interference - AGAIN !!!
I bet you're right. At least it makes sense in both languages.I would have thought it would have been 郵パック.
Can someone please translate this sentence into Japanese for me? I'm trying to say "how has life in japan been lately"?
I don't understand the question.Can someone please translate this sentence into Japanese for me? I'm trying to say "how has life in japan been lately"?
I would say 最近、日本の生活はどうですか。 (saikin, nihon no seikatsu wa dou desu ka.)
I don't understand the question.
Are you talking about the life of the country for most people or how well someone in particular likes it there ?
Ok, usually I see it as +"~~での生活はどう" but either way is fine. There's alsoThanks! that sounds about right for what I'm trying to say.
Basically just how their life is going while being in that country. Not if they like being there but just their overall well being. It's being directed at one person.
Ok, usually I see it as +"~~での生活はどう" but either way is fine. There's also
日本での生活には慣れた？ (日本の生活はうまく行ってる？) like "Are you used to life in Japan yet?" "Have you taken to it there?" if the person is newly arrived - or never adjusted properly to begin with.
ご冥福を祈ります。How do you say "rest in peace"?
Like when someone died.
ご冥福を祈ります。
gomeifuku wo inorimasu
We pray for your happiness in the next world / May your soul rest in peace.
gomeifuku means trouble right?
So the literal meaning should be "pray for trouble" I think, or am I thinking wrong?
ご冥福を祈ります。
gomeifuku wo inorimasu
We pray for your happiness in the next world / May your soul rest in peace.
Yeah, it's like "it appears" or "it seems". を通って means "through", so "it appears as though gas that passed through a pipe from the oil field and leaked out caught fire."
Interesting! I didn't think of it. In the same sense, 成仏 shouldn't be used for non-Buddists.This is a bit of 余談 (余計なお世話かもしれませんが・・・), but I was reading a bit online, and it appears that this phrase is misused a lot, and that people don't understand what it actually means. Apparently 冥福 means you pass successfully though 冥土, which is sort of a purgatory that you wander through for 49 days before reaching 極楽, so ご冥福をお祈り致します literally means you're praying for the departed's successful passing through 冥土, and their passage into heaven. However, it's really specific as to the religion, and even sect. For example, Christianity doesn't have 冥土, and neither does 浄土真宗, so saying it to someone of one of those faiths would be insulting.
You can read about it at つぶやき古道(コミチ). Also, there are other pages on the subject that you can browse via Google search: 冥福 祈る 間違い.
Yes, I think it is fine.Can someone tell me if this sentence makes sense, in the context that I'll describe below. あんたはとてもきれいな、だからそれは問題ない.
The person said getting hired would be difficult because they only hire hot people, so if I replied with the sentence above would it be understandable? I'm basically trying to say it would be no problem for them, since they are very pretty.
あなたは/君はとてもきれいな人だ、だから（それは）問題ないCan someone tell me if this sentence makes sense, in the context that I'll describe below. あんたはとてもきれいな、だからそれは問題ない.
The person said getting hired would be difficult because they only hire hot people, so if I replied with the sentence above would it be understandable? I'm basically trying to say it would be no problem for them, since they are very pretty.
The latter. やってきた以上は is also correct. However やってきた上は sounds odd, since 上は is a kind of archaic expression, as in かくなる上は. So something like ここまで来[きた]る上は might be acceptable.I came across a couple grammar structures, ～からには and 上は to mean something like "Now that~" or "Since~". If I wanted to say something like, "Now that I've come here, I can't hang out with my friends anymore" which would be more appropriate?
ここにやってきた上は、友達ともう遊べない。
ここにやってきたからには、友達ともう遊べない。
Or is there a better way to say it?
Oh, I wondered about that too, if 人 was strangely implied or something. But a Japanese person was right there on the phone when I read it to them and they said it was OK. Probably misunderstanding my な for a だあなたは/君はとてもきれいな人だ、だから（それは）問題ない
あなたは/君はとてもきれいだ、だから（それは）問題ない
あなたは/君はとてもきれいだから（それは）問題ない
You can't use きれいな alone.
Isn't "can't play with my friends" slightly odd as the secondary clause, though ? Usually I think in these type constructions it is "having" "now that" "so long as"...."have to do" "should do" "might as well do" like a duty, responsibility or order type statement.The latter. やってきた以上は is also correct. However やってきた上は sounds odd, since 上は is a kind of archaic expression, as in かくなる上は. So something like ここまで来[きた]る上は might be acceptable.
"Because of A, B can't be done" is also used.Isn't "can't play with my friends" slightly odd as the secondary clause, though ? Usually I think in these type constructions it is "having" "now that" "so long as"...."have to do" "should do" "might as well do" like a duty, responsibility or order type statement.
At least they should be more closely related. Because of A, B must be done ...