Need a word or phrase translated?

[epigene]

"Tendou" is used only in philosophy, religion, poetry and archaic usage.

The common word for heaven is "tengoku," as Leroy says.

My suggestion:
Kimi to iru to, marude tengoku mitaida.
(It's like heaven when I'm with you.)

 

[demonray]

Heya! I'm just confused about one phrase.. how do i say:

"I ate an apple for breakfast"

Is there a particle that functions as "FOR" ?

I came up with this:

僕は朝ごはんのためのりんごを食べました。

was it right to use "ため - tame" ?

or is it better if I use:

僕は朝ごはんにりんごを食べました。

or should I have used "で". . waa!
waaa.. confused.. sorry.
:sorry:

 

[Glenn]

I think you should just use は: 朝ご飯はりんごを食べました.

 

[Eve]

"Tendou" is used only in philosophy, religion, poetry and archaic usage.

The common word for heaven is "tengoku," as Leroy says.

My suggestion:
Kimi to iru to, marude tengoku mitaida.
(It's like heaven when I'm with you.)

ah ok thxs to you and also the previous poster

 

[Damicci]

Heya! I'm just confused about one phrase.. how do i say:

"I ate an apple for breakfast"

Is there a particle that functions as "FOR" ?

I came up with this:

僕は朝ごはんのためのりんごを食べました。

was it right to use "ため - tame" ?

or is it better if I use:

僕は朝ごはんにりんごを食べました。

or should I have used "で". . waa!
waaa.. confused.. sorry.

what about. 朝ごはんにりんごを食べました。

Now for my question.
I don't understand the term of this phrase. 持って来る
https://web.archive.org/web/20051023154804/http://www.genki-online.com/js/Kanji_10.html

 

[epigene]

I don't understand the term of this phrase. 持って来る

It's combination of 持つ（もつ） and 来る（くる）.
"Hold" + "come" = "Bring"

HTH!

PS Damicci-san, I've read your posts off and on and found your Japanese is improving dramatically since you came here for the first time! Very impressive!! (Gambattene!!)

 

[Damicci]

本当にありがとうございました。
Thank you very much. From you that is a honor. Yet I am still very far from where I want to be.
がんばります。

 

[GaijinPunch]

Damicci:

持って来る

Just a little note. 持って行く would be the opposite. Neat how that works, eh?

 

[Sanglant]

Hello all, first off apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place. ^^

I play an online game with a very high concentration of Japanese speakers which rekindled my interest in the language. I've been trying to brush up on my preschool like skills but am having problems with sentences that contain more than one verb.

E.g., "Bob, could you ask Joe to join our party?"

What would be the proper way to ask that in Japanese? I can stumble by with "Bob wa koi Joe o PT haitte kudasai?" (Party is typically abbreviated PT in the game)

Typically that phrase works for me but I can't help think that the Japanese speaker on the other end is spending a while trying to decipher my mangled sentence and usually am at a loss to whether I'm using the participles correctly. ><

 

[Damicci]

Must be playing FFXI ☝

I used to just simply use: PT ha ii desuka. (Is PT ok?)
or PT yoku kangeimasenka (Would you not consider a PT) But online Japanese is not a good way to learn b/c they abbr. EVERYTHING.
But from my understanding JP Players are not too interested in NA or foreign players, mostly b/c of language barriers and most NA players caused nothing but problems when playing around JP Players.

Well thats last I heard. Topic for the Gaming Thread.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Sanglant]

Thanks for the reply Damicci!

You hit the nail on the head with the FFXI guess. I can use "simple" japanese to get my point across okay but I'm trying to get a better grasp on the actual mechanics as it were.

For instance, how would "Bob wa toikakete miru Joe ni PT o haitte kudasai" actually translate?

I was going for "Bob try(i.e. could you) to ask Joe to join PT".

But from my understanding JP Players are not too interested in NA or foreign players, mostly b/c of language barriers and most NA players caused nothing but problems when playing around JP Players.

Well thats last I heard. Topic for the Gaming Thread.

It's pretty much still the same. Oddly enough, especially given my limited japanese, I often find myself being the sole NA player in an otherwise entirely "JP ONLY" group. Apparently my style of play is closer to what they're used to I guess :?

 

[Elizabeth]

For instance, how would "Bob wa toikakete miru Joe ni PT o haitte kudasai" actually translate?

I was going for "Bob try(i.e. could you) to ask Joe to join PT".

Bob wa, Joe ni [PT ni sanka shinai no ka] to kiite kudasaine ? maybe

The original one reads "Bob, please join in Joe that you tried to ask of PT or maybe the mistakes Japanese speakers can make more sense of....

Just remember to simplify whenever possible and you're on your way in Japanese. :emoji_blush:

 

[Damicci]

What I would use when I did get a Japanese party. Sometimes I had to form them. Thank goodness for friendly JP players and my limited speaking skills.

クロさんは日本人のプレやにさがしてください
KuroSan(Fake Name) ha nihonjin no pureya(Player？) ni sagashite kudasai
Kuro, can you please look for Japanese Players.

Or kurosan ha nihonjin no pureya ni sasoite(never could get this verb right) kudasai
Kuro, can you invite a Japanese player?

 

[Elizabeth]

What I would use when I did get a Japanese party. Sometimes I had to form them. Thank goodness for friendly JP players and my limited speaking skills.

クロさんは日本人のプレやにさがしてください
KuroSan(Fake Name) ha nihonjin no pureya(Player？) ni sagashite kudasai
Kuro, can you please look for Japanese Players.

Or kurosan ha nihonjin no pureya ni sasoite(never could get this verb right) kudasai
Kuro, can you invite a Japanese player?

I'm not sure about player -- isn't that like reserved for video players or athletes ? Maybe sankasha ? Anyway, try wo sasoite/wo sagashite (mitsukete?) kudasai.

 

[nemesae]

geemu pureeya maybe. Or if you want to be even clearer, konpyuutaa geemu pureeya. Probably this doesn't make much sense, but be specific that you're mentioning a computergame player here and not a player in a different sense

 

[GaijinPunch]

The word ゲーマー is used, but not a whole lot. I checked out this old link I had in my bookmarks. It's a J->J gamers dictionary. ゲーマー got 205 hits, I won't go through all of them, but the first one was this.

アーケーダー 【arcader】 [名] 〔ゲーマー/AC〕アーケードゲームをよく遊ぶ人の事、または個人で業務用基盤を買って遊ぶ人の事。人によって意味が分かれる。

and another

ゲーセン野郎 【げーせんやろう】 [名] 〔AC〕アーケードゲームをよく遊ぶ人。アーケーダーと同じ意味と思われる。男限定の用語だが、女性学者からは今のところ標的にされていない。

FYI, ゲーセン = Game Center/Arcade

プレーヤー I believe would work as well. As for Elizabeth's comment, I've been seen fighting game tournaments where they refer to the players with the 選手 suffice. So much for reserving.

 

[Damicci]

geemu pureeya maybe. Or if you want to be even clearer, konpyuutaa geemu pureeya. Probably this doesn't make much sense, but be specific that you're mentioning a computer game player here and not a player in a different sense

I think in this case specification is not needed. I think most would understand or have understood the reference of プレや To mean player in the sense of the current game they are playing. Maybe in an everyday conversation then it would be necessary to specify the type of player.

 

[Glenn]

I think in this case specification is not needed. I think most would understand or have understood the reference of プレや To mean player in the sense of the current game they are playing. Maybe in an everyday conversation then it would be necessary to specify the type of player.
:emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Except that it would make much more sense if were all in katakana. :emoji_blush:

 

[Damicci]

Except that it would make much more sense if were all in katakana.

☝ :sorry:
Good point.

 

[Elizabeth]

And either of these spellings :emoji_thinking: プレイヤー、プレーヤー

 

[roady]

Hello everyone, this is the perfect forum for me.
I have a phrase in English that I got translated into Japanese (written in calligraphy). I just want to make sure the translation is correct so that's why I'm asking here.

What does this mean in English.
ぼくらは地球を壊してる

Best Regards
//Bäcker

 

[Glenn]

"We are destroying the earth." I'm not sure how natural it is, though. Was it translated by a native Japanese speaker?

 

[Narwasorne]

Question

I was curious how one would say

"Rain makes the ground hard"

in japanese, I heard this quote from a japanese anime but interested in how to write it and say it in japanese.

Thanks

 

[GaijinPunch]

I'm not sure how natural it is, though. Was it translated by a native Japanese speaker?

Yeah, it's fair game. It's the same word as "break" but it's used pretty regularly. I would assume you'd hear something like 破壊している but, really don't. :/

"Rain makes the ground hard"

Literally it'd be 雨が土を固くする but something tells me it would've been said more like 土が雨に固められる。 They could also have used a number of words for ground. 土、土地、地面, etc.

 

[epigene]

I was curious how one would say

"Rain makes the ground hard"

In Japanese, I heard this quote from a Japanese anime but interested in how to write it and say it in Japanese.

Thanks

I think that is a translation of the saying:
雨降って地固まる （あめふってじかたまる）
(The ground becomes firmer after rainfall, i.e., love/friendship becomes more solid after overcoming problems)