Another interpretation is that 最低（ね） is used as an interjection "You're disgusting", and the last half of the sentence （これだから男の人って）ダメなのよ, 嫌いなのよ, 信用できないのよ or like that is omitted. The meaning of the sentence is almost the same, though.最低ね、これだから男の人って。
Spoken by a girl, the translation I am given is something like: "Guys are all like this."
I understand the bits:
= lowest, (like) this, because, men, casual topic marker
But I wouldn't have been able to come up with "Guys are all like this." by myself. Also, だから is always making me trip.
Context:
Girl: 離婚したんですか。
Man: え、いや、あの…
Girl: あなたの浮気が原因？
Man: はい？ (Eh? What...?)
Girl: 最低ね、これだから男の人って。
"Directly" and "like that" are good translations. Although さくっ is not so common expression, I believe. It's basically young people's dialect or net/game slang.Thanks Mike and Toritoribe.
Here's something else:
うん、変に気を使われるより、そうやってさくって聞かれるほうがいい。
[It's better to be asked that directly than for others to be too careful around me.]
Can someone provide an explanation for そうやって and さくって, I received one in another forum but it seems the person was more interested in showing off its endless knowledge and insight on Japanese and didn't help that much. I got something like さくって is a more coloquial form of さくっ which is an adverb that means swiftly, smoothly. I also got that it's a super common word used from kids to adults. How do you interpret this word?.
So そうやって means "like that", but there are like 100 words that mean "like that" in Japanese already and I am having trouble to sort them out.
The clause ダンボールから衣類を取り出して、伸ばし、また畳んでいく modifies おばあさん. 伸ばし、また畳んでいく expresses her actions for clothes, and not the ones of her own body.Yo! :haihai:
I have some difficulty to translate a sentence and I need some opinions or corrections about my translated version.
(The text is about a grandmother helping her grandchildren moving in her house)
ダンボールから衣類を取り出して、伸ばし、また畳んでいくおばあさんの背中を見て、いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな、と苦々しく思う。
Taking out the clothes out of the cardboard, seeing our grandmother's back bending and stretching out, made us feel shameful.
There's a part I couldn't translate properly: いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな
宜しくお願いします
Thanks for the correction! I hesitated which one between the grandmother and the clothes was the subject.The clause ダンボールから衣類を取り出して、伸ばし、また畳んでいく modifies おばあさん. 伸ばし、また畳んでいく expresses her actions for clothes, and not the ones of her own body.
やらねば is a classical form of やらなければ.
Are there any typos in 苦々しく?
I checked it and there's no typo : 苦々しく (にがにがしく) is the adverbial form of にがにがしい which means "shameful" or "unpleasant".Are there any typos in 苦々しく?
Yes, that's right.Thanks for the correction! I hesitated which one between the grandmother and the clothes was the subject.
So basically :"いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな" can be translate into : We must probably be kind to her (since "だろう" means probably)
I see. I thought 苦々しく思う "to feel bitter about~" didn't fit the nuance of いたわる. Does the speaker have negative feelings about their grandmother?I checked it and there's no typo : 苦々しく (にがにがしく) is the adverbial form of にがにがしい which means "shameful" or "unpleasant".
Does the speaker have negative feelings about their grandmather?
Hello.
I have a question concerning the meaning of this sentence :
命を投げるなら、俺は別に、口は出さなかった。
(If you throw away your life, I don't care. ... )
But I don't understand what is meant by the last words.
Thank you for your help.
Hello.
I have a question concerning the meaning of this sentence :
命を投げるなら、俺は別に、口は出さなかった。
(If you throw away your life, I don't care. ... )
But I don't understand what is meant by the last words.
Thank you for your help.
口は出さなかった is the topicalization of 口を出さなかった, which is the negative of an idiom 口を出す "to interfere/stick one's nose into ~", whereas the topicalization of the negative of 口に出す "to say ~" is 口には出さなかった.Rather than "I don't care" wouldn't it be "I won't say anything"?
いつだってお前は俺より大切なものがあるんだHello, I'm not sure how to phrase this in English.
This is all being said by the same person:
いつだってお前は俺より大切なものがあるんだ
When was it that you found someone more important than me?
俺には何もないのに
I don't have anything.
だからああいう場面で他人を引き合いに出せるんだ
So, in that sort of situation I could just quote others.
I'm not sure if my interpretation of the last line is correct, it sounds really awkward to me. Is there a different meaning for 引き合いに出せる?
口は出さなかった is the topicalization of 口を出さなかった, which is the negative of an idiom 口を出す "to interfere/stick one's nose into ~", whereas the topicalization of the negative of 口に出す "to say ~" is 口には出さなかった.
いつだってお前は俺より大切なものがあるんだ
You always have something more important than me.
I don't know the context, so the subject of the last sentence is ambiguous to me. Grammatically, it could be either "you" or "I".
So, the speaker is A, right? Then, yes, the subject of the sentence is B and 他人を引き合いに出す means "to use others as a reference/benchmark" or like that.
口は出さなかった is the topicalization of 口を出さなかった, which is the negative of an idiom 口を出す "to interfere/stick one's nose into ~", whereas the topicalization of the negative of 口に出す "to say ~" is 口には出さなかった.
That's right. In this case, it's a classical usage, thus, the present form あがる expresses the perfect tense; 雨があがった in modern Japanese. It's often used also in 俳句 or 和歌.I checked in my dictionary and "agaru" here means "to stop".
JREF is not a free translation service. This is the LEARNING JAPANESE section.Hi people...
Is this the appropriate thread to ask translations?
Hi people...
Is this the appropriate thread to ask translations?
I'm sorry. In fact, I wasnt sure you could do that, so I was just literally asking lolThe thread title indicates this is for asking for a word or phrase translated....not a whole page out of a Dragon Ball comic book.
It's a long story xDWhat are the circumstances that put you in desperate need of a translation of this? And what did you do to get through pages 1 through 63?