Need a word or phrase translated?

[Majestic]

How fabulous does Haru look in this drama?! :inlove:

 

[marnor9004]

Does seisei (生成) really mean generation in this sentence? Doesnt it mean 'become' or something else more relevant to the context.

Thanks.

雪（ゆき、英: snow）とは、大気中の水蒸気から生成される氷の結晶が空から落下してくる天気のこと

 

[Toritoribe]

生成 is not a noun in that sentence. It's the stem of a -suru verb 生成する, thus, it means "to form" (more accurately "to be formed" since it's passive).

生成するの英語・英訳 - goo辞書 英和和英

 

[marnor9004]

Okay thanks.

 

[symo]

Hi guys,

Tried learning Japanese at university and went nowhere, or rather kept hitting a big fat tree. Fast forward a number of years and I'm trying to buy some stuff from a japanese website. Google translates it as "Toyo possible" which doesn't make much sense. Would be awesome if someone knows what 取寄せ可能 means?

For reference, the other phrases in a similar location on the page are "In stock", "no stock" and "low stock". So flummoxed as to what other stock status there is.

 

[symo]

Digged around a bit more and I've got the gist of what it means. Basically they'r not sure if it's in stock or not but you can back-order it in case.

取寄せ可能な商品在庫が、直営店舗または弊社倉庫にある場合、ご注文が可能となります。
直営店舗または弊社倉庫に在庫がある場合でも、取寄せができない商品もございますので、ご了承ください。

取寄せ注文では、商品の入荷日が不確定となるため、一回のご注文につき一点のみなります。
他の商品との同梱はできませんのでご了承ください。
複数の商品を取寄せご希望の場合は、お手数ですが商品毎にご注文をお願いいたします。

取寄せ注文で利用可能なお支払方法は、クレジットカード、代金引換、Paypalとなります。
コンビニ決済はご利用頂けませんので、ご了承ください。

取寄せ注文の商品が入荷しなかった場合は、キャンセルとさせていただき、ご注文キャンセルをメールにて連絡させていただきます。
取寄せ注文キャンセル後に当該商品が再入荷した場合、通常販売されることもございますので、予めご了承ください。


取寄せでのご注文はお客様のご都合によるキャンセルはできませんので予めご了承ください。

お客様のご都合とは以下の場合です。
商品のイメージが異なる､サイズが合わない､注文を間違えた、など。

 

[Mike Cash]

Your rapid advance in Japanese skills is the most astounding I have ever seen. To go from not being able to read or understand 取寄せ可能 to being able to get the gist of that longer text in an hour two is miraculous!

 

[symo]

Hehe good one

...I attribute it to the subliminal effect of wearing Japanese t shirts and watching Japanese films all these years. Either that or deciphering Google's wonky attempt at translation

 

[Mike Cash]

I'd suggest you dig around a bit and check to see if they ship overseas or not. Most Japanese online merchants won't.

 

[DWolfs]

Hello there. The main character here is talking about the vast size of the universe, but I'm not sure what he means with the どころか多い part in the third bubble. (それぞれの島宇宙にはン何億どころか多いものだと100兆個の恒星があるんだ)

The next panel also confuses me a bit. 場所につきとめるとかいう次元の話ではない. Is he talking about multiple dimensions here?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Mike Cash]

I'm not sure what he means with the どころか多い part in the third bubble. (それぞれの島宇宙にはン何億どころか多いものだと100兆個の恒星があるんだ)

JGram - The Japanese Grammar database

The number is so huge that units of 億 aren't big enough. Imagine in a different situation someone saying, "You don't need a clock; you need a calendar".

 

[UsoToChinmoku]

The next panel also confuses me a bit. 場所につきとめるとかいう次元の話ではない. Is he talking about multiple dimensions here?

It's 場所をつきとめる according to your own posted image.

"It's not at a level where you just pin point a location" The 次元 here is not literal.

 

[Lomaster]

How would one say "serious book" as opposed to just-for-fun literature? Anything other than 肩が凝る本?

 

[Toritoribe]

まじめな/固い/深刻な/シリアスな本

 

[Mike Cash]

まじめな/固い/深刻な/シリアスな本

Or if you ask my coworkers, 絵がない本

 

[nag5500]

Important! Please translate!! 田中がこう風に言ってるけど。話していないの

 

[Toritoribe]

Context?
Is there any typo in こう風?

 

[nag5500]

Context?
Is there any typo in こう風?

Yes!! It's こういう風. Thanks. It's for a friend in a bank. Don't know full context.
田中 is a made up name. To not disclose his real name.

 

[Toritoribe]

Tanaka said like this. Haven't you talked with him yet? or I haven't talked with him yet.

 

[nag5500]

Tanaka said like this. Haven't you talked with him yet? or I haven't talked with him yet.

Thank you

 

[Yoshie]

I'm a bit confused with the second half of the second sentence in the following passage. I think I can understand what the speaker is saying, however what is the point of this? Why using a tweezers will make him bleach something after? Or maybe I'm mistaken something?

空いているベッドに彼女を座らせて、棚の中からカット綿とオキシドールを取り出す。本当はピンセットも使うべきなんだろうけど、まあそっちは後からの漂白が面倒だからとりあえずは放置だ。

 

[mdchachi]

It's saying that the proper method would be to use tweezers but doing so would make the bleaching afterwards more difficult. So s/he won't bother for now.

I don't know the context enough to know what the tweezers would be used for and why it would make the bleaching more difficult. I don't even know what they are bleaching for that matter.

 

[Yoshie]

Thank you for you reply.
The context: the girl had scratched her knee, and the speaker took her to infirmary to treat her wound.

 

[mdchachi]

Thank you for you reply.
The context: the girl had scratched her knee, and the speaker took her to infirmary to treat her wound.

So maybe s/he didn't want to bother with disinfecting the tweezers later.

 

[Yoshie]

The speaker doesn't say anything more about it , so it's pretty much may be it, thanks for help.