Need a word or phrase translated?

[Sakide]

Exactly what it sounds and looks like....a white building.

What's that supposed to be? A hospital maybe? (Would make sense from the context...)
Is it like, slang for 病院?

 

[Yoshie]

I'm a bit confused with the part in bold in the following passage. Is this part refers to the whole 雑居ビル? So both 接骨院 and 風俗店 are not guaranteed to work?

一階に接骨院。
二階に風俗店。
三階から先は疎らなテナントで、営業しているのか定かではない寂れた雑居ビルだ。

 

[Mike Cash]

I'm a bit confused with the part in bold in the following passage. Is this part refers to the whole 雑居ビル? So both 接骨院 and 風俗店 are not guaranteed to work?

一階に接骨院。
二階に風俗店。
三階から先は疎らなテナントで、営業しているのか定かではない寂れた雑居ビルだ。

From the third floor on up tenants were so sparse that you couldn't even be certain they were in business (i.e. whether that part of the building was even in use or not).

 

[Toritoribe]

I'm a bit confused with the part in bold in the following passage. Is this part refers to the whole 雑居ビル? So both 接骨院 and 風俗店 are not guaranteed to work?

一階に接骨院。
二階に風俗店。
三階から先は疎らなテナントで、営業しているのか定かではない寂れた雑居ビルだ。

Indeed it's confusing, but 営業している is not usually used for 雑居ビル, so the clause wouldn't modify 接骨院 and 風俗店, as Mike-san interpreted.

 

[Yoshie]

I see, thanks everyone!
Would it be correct to parse this sentence like this 「(（テナントが営業しているのか定かではない）(寂れた)雑居ビル)だ」?

 

[Toritoribe]

Yes, and テナント refers to 三階から先のテナント.

 

[Rosava]

Hello! Can someone check my translation of this song?
本当はあなたの方が弱いてこと気付いているんだ
I know that actually you are weaker
いつだって強がっている
Though you always try to be strong
あなたを悲しみから守りたい
I want to protect you from sadness
どんなときも
Anytime
怪獣の腕のなか
In the arms of the monster
凍える心をあなためさせて
Let your frozen heart to be eaten
もう、傷つけるための刃など
You don't need anymore
あなたには必要ないんだよ
such things as hurting blade

Not sure what mesu stands for:
めす(mesu) 【 召す 】

1. (v5s, vt) to call; to invite; to send for; to summon
2. to eat; to drink
3. to put on; to wear
4. to ride
5. to catch (a cold); to take (a bath); to tickle (one's fancy); to put on (years); to commit (seppuku )
6. to do →Related words: 召される

 

[Toritoribe]

I'm pretty sure it's 凍える心をあたためさせて.
(There is also anther typo 弱いってこと, plus, the second line いつだって強がっている modifies あなた in the next line.)

 

[Rosava]

Thanks! So it is
Let your frozen heart to be warmed up in the arms of the monster
And the first lines can be like this:
I want to protect you, who always try to be strong, from sadness

 

[Toritoribe]

～させて is a structure for request "let me do for you", i.e., the agent of 温める is the speaker/writer; "Let me warm up your frozen heart."
強がる means more likely "to pretend to be tough/to try to hide her weakness".

 

[Rosava]

So the singer calls herself a monster?
Let me warm up your frozen heart in my arms of the monster

 

[Toritoribe]

It's possible to warm up your heart without holding your body in their arms physically. 怪獣 doesn't refer to the writer/speaker/singer. Your heart is frozen in the monster's arms, therefore the writer/speaker/singer wants to rescue you.

 

[Sultan]

Hello, how to say "congratulate me!" At some Russian site someone made a post about finishing hiragana studying and there were kinda debut about the phrase. Namely, is it correct to say "わたしがおめでとう!" or is it を and some say it's おめでと and not おめでとう. Thanks for the attention.

 

[Toritoribe]

おめでとう、わたし or わたしにおめでとう

 

[Haki]

Hello guys, I'm new in this forum and have a question about my unusual name.
My name is Hakan and I don't know if it is the same in Japanese. For example Michael is Maikeru in Japanese, how about my name? Are there any changes or does it stay the same?

 

[Majestic]

Yes, your name (as spelled) has complete phonetic symmetry with Japanese, so you could render your name as ハカン (Hakan) in Japanese with no problem.

If your name is pronounced with some inflection or nuance that isn't apparent from the spelling, you might need a different katakana spelling, but as is it matches neatly with Japanese.

 

[mdchachi]

Hello guys, I'm new in this forum and have a question about my unusual name.
My name is Hakan and I don't know if it is the same in Japanese. For example Michael is Maikeru in Japanese, how about my name? Are there any changes or does it stay the same?

I didn't realize it was unusual. I had a German coworker named Hakan many years ago. Anyway I believe in Japanese it was "spelled" the same. HAKAN (ハカン).

 

[Razahia]

Hey, I was wondering what the meaning of this verb here was... I tried searching it up but the meanings I got were nowhere close to what I thought it would mean. So I assume it's a set phrase.

強くなるためならどんな事でもやる覚悟ある。だが……俺が先生の強さに近づけるイメージが全く湧かない

 

[Mike Cash]

Hey, I was wondering what the meaning of this verb here was... I tried searching it up but the meanings I got were nowhere close to what I thought it would mean. So I assume it's a set phrase.

強くなるためならどんな事でもやる覚悟ある。だが……俺が先生の強さに近づけるイメージが全く湧かない

To rise up naturally, on its own. In this case, probably close to "occur" in English. "It would never occur to me (to imagine) that i could be nearly as strong as xxx". A more natural translation would be "I can't see myself ever being nearly as strong as xxx" or "I can't imagine myself being as strong as xxx".

 

[Razahia]

To rise up naturally, on its own. In this case, probably close to "occur" in English. "It would never occur to me (to imagine) that i could be nearly as strong as xxx". A more natural translation would be "I can't see myself ever being nearly as strong as xxx" or "I can't imagine myself being as strong as xxx".

Alright, thanks! Definition I got was nowhere near that "To well(up), to gush forth(water), to spring out, to surge, to appear, to feel emotions from, to hatch" Confused me terrible haha.

 

[Toritoribe]

Your dictionary doesn't have any example sentence?

わく【湧く・涌く】
II 〔心の中に起こる〕
あなたの話を聞いて勇気［希望］がわいた
Your words have filled me with courage [hope].／What you said has given me courage [hope].
恐怖心が湧いた
Fear sprang up in 「my heart [me].
見る物すべてに興味がわいた
I took interest in everything I saw.
それには全く好奇心がわかなかった
It failed to excite my curiosity.

湧くの英語・英訳 - goo辞書 英和和英

わく 湧く
1〈沸き出る〉 gush [spring, flow] out [【形式ばった表現】 forth]; well up
用例
それを聞いて私の心に喜びがわいた.
Joy welled up in my heart at the news.

湧くの英語・英訳 - 英和辞典・和英辞典 Weblio辞書

 

[Rosava]

Hello! I read manga about Sengoku and there is a question.

A guy asks Yuinoske if he is alive.
Yuinosuke answers: 敵のへなちょこ玉などこの唯之助を避けて通るわい
唯之助 -- Yuinosuke, protagonist
へなちょこ -- novice
玉 -- bullet, I think
Not sure if this is right: "Yuinosuke happened to avoid a bullet of novice enemy". / bullet came close but avoided Yuinosuke
Or なちょこ玉 is some specific bullet?

 

[Toritoribe]

Notice that it's 唯之助を. The subject is へなちょこ玉 and 唯之助 is the object, thus, it literally means "bullets avoid Yuinosuke". It's a kind of set phrase to express how skillful/strong he is.

 

[Rosava]

I see. But what kind of bullet へなちょこ玉 is?

 

[noles101]

I am getting a tattoo soon and would like the phrase "Continuation is power". Google translate gave me 継続が力です. I wanted to know if that was the correct translation.