Elizabeth said:I'm not sure about the first sentence...
Hehe, now that IME is coming through for me again evidently there was even more practice with 待ち兼ねる from only last week as well....Glenn said:The first sentence, 謝りかねる, means "I cannot apologize," and is similar to 謝ってたまらない [or 謝ってたまるか/謝ってたまるもんか (remember these?)]. However, かねる is formal and is an implicitly negative verb.
Not completely, "no tame ni" would be directed at the thing which you are doing something for, though. Also what kind of support does this involve ?Eve said:oh how close was my translation? is it all wrong
交通渋滞で、電車に乗り遅れた。Kama said:How to say "because of the traffic jam I missed a train." ?
Elizabeth said:Not completely, "no tame ni" would be directed at the thing which you are doing something for, though. Also what kind of support does this involve ?
I usually think of 支援 as being closer than 援助 (help, assistance)....so another possibility is 支援をいただいてありがとうございました。
waynelorentz said:I just got back from my first trip to Japan and I'm going through my photographs trying to identify each of them. I took a picture of an interesting building next to the Marugen 54 building in Kabukicho, but can't figure out what it is. There is some writing over the door I thought might help:
Of course, I can't read it which is why I'm asking here.
Here's a wider view of the building, in case anyone knows it:
The poster in the middle of the building is a picture of baby feet with the legend "Life Support" and a logo that looks like a combination of the letter A and the number 1.
The sentence means "being obstinate, in trying hard to be/stay strong."GaijinPunch said:Can someone give me a good translation of verb + あろう. The sentence I could dig up is
強くあろうと意地を張る
I know the last part is to act stubborn or obstinate. Would 'strongly' suffice for the first part? If so, why the あろう? My dictionary lives a bit to be desired in it's definitions.
But it sounds too uninvolved....If you need to come to it from the angle of wanting or pleading to please be remembered : 私のことを覚えていてくれませんか？ 私のことを覚えてないのじゃないかなぁ？？.... or there's always a more informal take in Japanese depending on the situation.Buntaro said:blade_bltz,
"Do you remember me?"
--> Watashi no koto o oboete imasu ka?
Glenn said:From what I remember reading use the -masu stem in more formal situations, and when the two clauses aren't connected in a causal way. That is, you can use -te for light causality, but the -masu stem bears no hint of causality.
epigene said:強くあろう is an inflection (is that the right grammatical term?)
nemesae said:I am working on a manga and want a Japanese title (heehee), but I was wondering if 泣き空の時に is proper Japanese. It at least sounds a bit better then 泣いた空の時に and I have no other idea on how to write 'the time when the sky cried' (unless you'd use 空が泣いたの時に but I don't like that construction for a title)... it's about snow, if anybody wonders where the title is referring to
Glenn said:They should be nanda, korya and nanda, sorya, respectively. The difference is that the former means "what's this?" and the latter means "what's that?" Nanda, arya is also possible, and it also means "what's that?" but the "that" in this instance is something not "owned" by the speaker or the listener. The three are contractions of kore wa, sore wa, and are wa, respectively. See also this page on demonstratives.
Pox said:How about "空が泣いた時"?