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Need a word or phrase translated?

I understand the gist of what the sentence below means, but when translating it, I'm having a hard time putting it into a coherent sentence (everything I come up with sounds a little too awkward).

Context:
A likes B. A has come to realize that B seems to be more conscious of him and seems to be avoiding him. A considers some different scenarios/things he can say to B.

A to B: からかわれて避けるってことは君も俺を意識してるってことじゃないか!

Any one have an idea of how this could be phrased in English?
 
200人斬り vs 200人斬られ

What is the difference?

I found 人斬り=assassination but 人斬られ=be assassinated ?

:?
 
How about to separate the sentence into two parts; "からかわれて避ける, that means 君も俺を意識してる, isn't it?"

Lotorie said:
200人斬り vs 200人斬られ
What is the difference?
I found 人斬り=assassination but 人斬られ=be assassinated ?
:?
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Yes, 斬られ is the passive.
BTW, isn't it from, uh, a kind of inappropriate-for-this-forum comic or like that? ○人斬り can have a specific (slangy) meaning in such context.
 
Toritoribe said:
How about to separate the sentence into two parts; "からかわれて避ける, that means 君も俺を意識してる, isn't it?"
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Ah, it flows much better that way than the things I was coming up with.
Thank you.
 
I don't think it's inaproriate.

It's a game : you're a warrior and you have to perform... a lot of things.

Here, it's to take part in battles and take care of ennemies ^^
 
A to B: からかわれて避けるってことは君も俺を意識してるって ことじゃないか!

からかわれて避ける is supposed to be in the passive-passive or active-active tense ?? I don't know if passive-active is native speakers occasionally using odd grammar too when they are conversing, but it looks strange to me. :?
 
"You're being made fun of/teased and you then avoid (so-and-so)." It's a common way of showing different actors without changing subjects.
 
Lotorie said:
I don't think it's inaproriate.
It's a game : you're a warrior and you have to perform... a lot of things.
Here, it's to take part in battles and take care of ennemies ^^
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I see. That's not 人斬り[ひときり] "assassin/assassination" but 200人斬り[にひゃくにんぎり] "a person who cut down/killed 200 people with a sword" or "killing 200 people with a sword". Thus, 200人斬られ means "a person who was cut down/was killed by 200 people with a sword". I don't know the context exactly, but 100人斬られ sometimes refers to period drama actors who acted roles killed with a sword 100 times.
 
Glenn said:
"You're being made fun of/teased and you then avoid (so-and-so)." It's a common way of showing different actors without changing subjects.
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It varies sentence to sentence I suppose. Not ungrammatical but a relatively rare construct, or sukunai.
 
押されて落ちる
轢かれて怪我をする
笑われて怒る
怒られて泣く、、、

I, too, think that structure is quite commonly used.
 
Toritoribe said:
押されて落ちる
轢かれて怪我をする
笑われて怒る
怒られて泣く、、、
I, too, think that structure is quite commonly used.
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OK. I'll have to open my eyes a bit more. lol What I remembered was talking to some Japanese who didn't necessarily believe so. But it is certainly rarer than the active-active tone.
 
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Hmm, I don't think so. As Glenn-san explained, when expressing "different actors and same subjects", this form is quite natural and common. How do we explain for 押されて落ちる/轢かれて怪我をする in "active-active"?
 
I have something that I need help converting to English. This is actually game related and I've been working on trying to improve my understanding of Japanese sentence and structure. Anyway, the sentence is...

キャラデザインに藤島康介氏といのまたむつみ氏の2人が起用され、それぞれがデザインしたジュードとミラが物語の主人公となる

For the most part, I understand what the sentence is trying to convey but I am having problems with trying to translate it into English because of the structure. For now, what I'm thinking is

"The character design by Fuujishima Kyousuke and Inomata Mitsumi who were chosen (for this project), respectively, for (character's design) Jude and Milla, worked on their individual stories."

Those particles really throw me off and some help would be appreciated! Feels like the last part was completely off on my part.

Thanks again!
 
The core of the first half of the sentence is キャラデザインに2人が起用され, and the second half is ジュードとミラが主人公となる. The subjects of each part are 2人（＝藤島康介氏といのまたむつみ氏） and ジュードとミラ, respectively.

それぞれ in the second half refers to 藤島康介氏 and いのまたむつみ氏, and the clause それぞれがデザインした modifies ジュードとミラ.

Fuujishima Kyousuke and Inomata Mitsumi are choson as the designers of the characters (of the game), Jude and Milla, whom Fuujishima and Inomata designed respectively, act as the leading characters of the story.


Tind said:
What does the word "nabikase" mean in English ?
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It's the -masu stem of the causative form of a verb なびく[nabiku]; "to bend/to flutter/to wave/to bow to/to yield to/to obey/to be swayed by". The meaning of nabiku and the function of the -masu stem completely depend on the context.
 
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Hi! Me once again. I'm starting to get the hang of getting things by context while learning Japanese, but some things just don't make sense for me.
My Japanese friend's most recent email: (** are mine)
やっと自宅に帰れました
**isn't 帰れました here supposed 帰りました？Or is somewhat of a dialect/slang?
返信が遅れてすいません
**just for re-assurance, is suimasen a contracted sumimasen?
You tubeですがもののけ姫のURLを張っておきます
<URL omitted>
**hatte okimasu doesn't make much sense to me. I know the gist that he wants me to go to the URL, but what does it literally mean? and can I use it for things other than "URL" wo hatte okimasu?
こっちが千と千尋の神隠しです
<URL omitted>
**no problems here.
ジブリ作品で「コクリコ坂から」という作品も上映が始まりましたね
非常に興味深いです
**This sentence confuses me. という -> I don't get what it is.
非常に興味深いです
**why not use とても面白いです？When is it better to use this or the other?
Many thanks for all the help this forums has given me. All you guys and gals are topnotch.
 
b2jsai said:
やっと自宅に帰れました
**isn't 帰れました here supposed 帰りました？Or is somewhat of a dialect/slang?
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It's the potential form.

b2jsai said:
返信が遅れてすいません
**just for re-assurance, is suimasen a contracted sumimasen?
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It's more likely a colloquial form of すみません.

張る means "to paste (a link)/to link" here.

リンク is also often used in the same meanig. リンクを張る

It's "called/named".

「コクリコ坂から」という作品: a work "コクリコ坂から"

b2jsai said:
非常に興味深いです
**why not use とても面白いです？When is it better to use this or the other?
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Roughly, the former "interesting" vs the latter "funny", especially when おもしろい is written 面白い.
 
Hello just something in my textbook I don't understand...

It says "Some, although not all, adjectives that show a psychological state must be followed by the suffix がる if it is of the third person's psychological state."

Example: 妹は犬をこわがります。 ＝ My younger sister is scared of dogs.

Does this mean you can't say,「 妹は犬がこわいです。」？

Thanks
 
It depends on the context. When describing a specific situation, e.g., a dog is in front of my sister and she is scared of the dog now, you need to say 妹は犬を怖がっています. On the other hand, you can say 妹は犬が怖いです as a general statement, e.g., my younger sister is usually scared of dogs.

If I were the author of the textbook, I would use, for instance, 暑い as an example instead of 怖い. You can't say 妹は暑いです in any situation. It should be 妹は暑がっています, 暑そうです, 暑いみたいです, 暑いようです or like that. This difference is from what the adjective is expressing. The emotion 怖い can persist for a long time, whereas the sense 暑い is basically always temporal. So 暑い would be hardly used for a general statement.
 

Thanks, that helped a lot.
Maybe you should write a textbook, I would definitely buy it
妹はとりとりべさんの教科書をほしがっていますから。＾＾
 
I need help with translating some Japanese titles:

1. 天人五衰の事
2. 狸惑わしの事
3. 羽化登仙の事
4. 魍魎の匣、あるいは人の事

Any ideas how you could turn it to be a logical phrase in English? In the content, I would say that the 'no koto' part will be a refer to a certain incident or case (a police case). So beginning the title with "The incident of ... " sounds pretty fine with me, but the other parts are a bit awkward.

Thank you so much for helping me all the time .
 
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天人五衰 (tennninngosui) means "The Decay of the Angel". It's a Buddhism term. Most Japanese memorize that as a title of Mishima's novel. You can see more descriptions in English Wikipedia.

狸惑わし (tanukimadowasi) means "a raccoon dog mistified" or "a racoon dog's mystification". This comes from Japanese old tales. However, 狸惑わし is not a commonly used phrase. At least, I never read or heard exact phrase. (I don't say that is wrong, simply sounds strange to me.)

羽化登仙 (ukatousen) means roughly "becoming a immortal wizard". This word originally comes from Taoism.

魍魎の匣 (moryo) means roughly "box of monsters". 匣 is mostly 箱.
I think this is episode titles of anime, so "One with ..." (I'm "Friends" fan) may be also fine.
 
Hello everyone! I'm new here and I have one question. Would someone please tell me what 少し北の神宮北周辺 mean in the following sentence?

そもそも、この通りは終戦直前に出来た明治神宮への表参道で元々原宿と呼ばれていたところは少し北の神宮北周辺でこの辺りは隠田と呼ばれていたんだ
 

Yes, I'm currently making subtitles for an animation that will screen on a festival and some phrases were not so familiar to me. I have a long way to go before I'll be able to understand terms such as 窶弖ﾂ人ﾅ津慊税? (sigh).

Thank you very much for the help! :emoji_blush:
 
BBuu said:
I need help with translating some Japanese titles:

1. 天人五衰の事
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"The Decay of the Angel" is more likely the English title for the Mishima's novel, which was loosely translated by Edward Seidensticker. A literal translation "The five signs of the decay of a Deva/The five death omens of a Deva" might be more appropreate for 天人五衰 as a common Buddhism term, as explained in the wiki page linked below. (I believe this is the page saheki-san mentioned.)

The Decay of the Angel - Wikipedia


少し北 means 今の原宿の少し北, and this phrase modifies 神宮北周辺.

元々原宿と呼ばれていたところは少し北の神宮北周辺で
the original Harajuku(lit. the area which was originally called Harajuku) was around (the present) Jingu-Kita, which is a little north from the present Harajuku,
 
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