Context and/or intonation. For instance, やるか can be a strong nagative, asking the addressee's will, invitation, saying to the speaker themselves, being amazed by someone's action, and so on...how do I know whether か will be negative then? and I think I have but I never considered it to be negative. Do i just do it be context?
Yes, except 同級生たちとバスからおりました. ;-)Is this correct? In particular using '同級生たち' as classmates?
'I got off of the bus with my classmates.'
同級生たちとバスにおりました。
And don't even use たまるか as a joke or manga word. That is the only instance I am aware of (I think :=) that literally no one will understand in the affirmative.how do I know whether か will be negative then? and I think I have but I never considered it to be negative. Do i just do it be context?
And don't even use たまるか as a joke or manga word. That is the only instance I am aware of (I think :=) that literally no one will understand in the affirmative.
Yes, of course. Or rather, を might be more common.バスをおりました is also acceptable, right?
It's about the usage as an auxiliary verb, e.g., 負けてたまるか！ Haven't you seen this?what does that mean :?
「～してたまるか」=「will not」?
寄らば/寄るならば大樹の陰がいい makes sense?It seems that 寄らば大樹の陰 is an idiomatic saying that literally means 'If you need shelter, a big tree is better than a little one' or maybe 'If you need shelter, choose a big tree', but is actually a metaphor for 'If you need protection, find an influential man.'
Well, that's what the dictionary says anyway, but, how did they get from 寄る to 寄らば? The sentences looks to me like it says, "If you're getting close (to an unspecified thing or place), there is the shade of a large tree', excepting that vowel change is wrong for a ば conditional.
I can understand 'shade of a tree' is a metaphor for 'in the shelter of a tree', but beyond that I don't see where the supposedly literal meaning of this sentence is coming from.
Can anyone clarify this for me?
陰／蔭／翳（かげ）の意味 - goo国語辞書かげ【陰／蔭／翳】
１ 物に遮られて、日光や風雨の当たらない所。「木の―で休む」
No, I'm afraid it doesn't. Is the subject of 寄る the person being advised by the saying, or some unspecified threat (perhaps 嵐), or ... though this seems unlikely... the 大樹?寄らば/寄るならば大樹の陰がいい makes sense?
Ah, I see, so かげ is really 'shelter' rather than 'shade', it's just often 'shelter' from the sun. That doesn't really change my understanding of this sentence, but it's a good thing to know, thank you.陰 is not a metapher. ～の陰 means the place protected from sunsine or rain by ~.
Ah, it is starting to make sense now. So it's 'if (you're) going (to shelter), then the shelter of a big tree (is better)'.The first interpretation is correct for the subject.
寄らば is a classical conjugation. It's equivalent to 寄れば in modern Japanese. (Unlike modern -ba conditional, the classical one has two different forms each for "conditional (=if)" and "habitual action". 未然形 + ば(寄らば) is used only for the former case "if", and 已然形 + ば(寄れば) is only for the latter case.)
It's 寄らば, i.e., 未然形 case.Edit: Oh, wait, but this is the 已然形 case... so ... it's not really 'if you go' but 'where you make a habit of going', I suppose.
1stWhat do these shirts say?
Sorry I do not really understand your question - do you wish to know the word "improper" in Japanese when pointing out improper use of words (i.e. not grammatically correct), or examples of improper words so you can say it is not improper "like this word or that words"?Yep, thanks!
How about how to say something is improper?
I would use くだけた / くだけている.How about how to say something is improper?
The name in the second picture is the artist's name; 豊國[Toyokuni] (歌川豊國 [Utagawa Toyokuni]).Hi all,
I am looking for the artist's name on the following Japanese woodcut prints ( I have two in total). I'll post the script that appears in both. I've been researching them and have been told that some of these woodcuts were taken from calenders in times past. Thanks in advance!
I am amazed at the utility of this forum - you've helped me out before so thanks once again! Rather than be a bore I'll actually post the pictures if anyone is interested, and also for clarity. I feared that some of them might have been a bit worse for wear
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二人ともさー誰かれかまわずウインクしてんの？
whats this part mean?
also what does this mean つこっめよ, where is this from?
thanks