Need a word or phrase translated?

[Elizabeth]

Email from a pen friend. Some grammar here I don't understand.
"Work is busy huh? But, somehow you are going to Fukuoka, I am jealous."

Not as much "such" or "how" here, more of a mild surprise that you were actually able to go...is my final take on it.

 

[kisaragi]

How do you express luck in japanese ?

I mean e.g. you find a coin on the floor and your reaction is something like "i'm in luck today !" or "we're in luck today" when there are multiple persons.

or saying to someone "you're lucky!"

I once heard something like: kyou wa suite imasu, or kyou wa tsuite imasu ... something like that i'm not really sure.


Tnx !

 

[KrazyKat]

Normally they will say:
ラッキー
rakkii

Other phrases as you said are tuite iru, (this is probably an abbreviation of something though, can't remember exactly what)
and un ga ii. 運がいい

 

[Apple Bomb]

Here is another round of my shockingly simple questions.

ドブネズミみたいに美しくなりたい
写真にはうつらない美しさがあるから

I get this. But in the second line, could someone explain it's meaning literally? Is "utsukushisa" an actual word? Once again, thank you in advance. I will try to start contributing to this forum in some kind of helpful way ^_^

 

[KrazyKat]

Here is another round of my shockingly simple questions.

ドブネズミみたいに美しくなりたい
写真にはうつらない美しさがあるから

I get this. But in the second line, could someone explain it's meaning literally? Is "utsukushisa" an actual word? Once again, thank you in advance. I will try to start contributing to this forum in some kind of helpful way ^_^

Hai! -i adjectives can become nouns by changing i to sa. eg. hayasa.

However itami, kanashimi etc. because of itamu kanashimu

Because it has a beauty that cannot be shown in pictures.

 

[Apple Bomb]

ありがとう。KrazyKatのおかげで、すぐ日本語で話せるようになりますね。

Katさん、学校で勉強しなければ、どうやって日本語を習いますか。すごく上手みたいです。

 

[KrazyKat]

全然上手ではないんですけど。。

ほとんど自分で勉強していますけど、今はここの皆さん が助けてくださっています。 漫画や子供の話を読める ようになってから、日本語を習うことはますます楽しく なってきました。 だから苦労せずに毎日勉強できます ね。

 

[Davey]

Could someone please translate this into Hiragana:

Thank you for loving me, and your patience. I know that I am not always easy, and neither is our relationship sometimes, but we know the meaning of love, and we love each other. thank you for making me Happy, and I do my best for more than 100% to let keep you happy always!

Thanks guys!!

 

[Jayern]

Does "どちらのタイプのお好み焼き?" means which type are you eating?

and how do you say I ate a little with it.

 

[Elizabeth]

Does "どちらのタイプのお好み焼き?" means which type are you eating?

Which type of okonomiyaki you mean ? :emoji_thinking: This doesn't say anything about eating it.

 

[Storm]

Hello, I found this forum in my search to answer a question, or actually get some clarification.

My question is about the words ronin, and rounin. I was looking up the word ronin (lordless samurai ) originally, and it told me that it was the mispelled version of the word rounin. I searched the web trying to find a historical answer, or clarification but haven't been able.

So, is ronin the mispelled version of rounin, or is there two versions of the word? I found instances of both words in my search, so I'm a bit confused.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Glenn]

Ronin is what you could call the Anglicized version, I guess. Since English speakers don't know about long vowels (or Japanese pronunciation in general) words are often dumbed down when written in English. It's a pain for the language learner who comes across a word for the first time and wants to look it up, but it seems that for the most part that audience isn't considered too important. There are a few different ways to show the long vowel in 浪人 (which means "lordless samurai," or nowadays someone who's failed the university entrance examination): rounin, roonin, and ronin with either a macron (looks kind of like -) or a circumflex (looks like ^) over the "o" (which I can't get to display properly).

Just so you know, ろにん (ronin) has no matches in the Japanese dictionary, but ろうにん (rounin, roonin) does.

 

[Jayern]

Which type of okonomiyaki you mean ? :? This doesn't say anything about eating it.

yea. thats what it meant. cuz we were talking about okonomiyakis

 

[Storm]

Glenn, thank you very much that helps alot. I had figured it had to do with being cut down, but wanted to make sure.

Thanks

 

[Kama]

What means "pochi"?

I see it a lot in sentences like: クリポチしていきます or ポチってきまぁす

 

[KrazyKat]

pochi is a standard name for a dog. Actually I only just realised that we don't seem to call dogs pochi in Englsih. Its about the equivalent of 'spot' in Englsih. But that doesn't seem to work in your sentences, so I can't help you there.

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

"pochi" can mean a "tip" or "gratuity" in certain dialects. Don't know if this helps or not, but that's all that I can come up with short of actually researching it.

 

[wakaP]

ポチは「ポチっと」というボタンを押す様子を表す言葉からきています。
クリポチは「ポチッとクリックする」の短縮型です。
クリポチする means click on a button on a Web page
to give a good reputation to the Web site (mainly it's blog).
クリ comes from クリック（click）,
and ポチ comes from ポチっと which express an action of button clicking.

 

[J44xm]

ハロー！ In preparing for my departure to Okazaki on the second, I've been in contact with a lady from IACE, a Japanese travel agency. (Thanks for the pointer, folks. They were excellent.) We ended using Japanese and she used an expression that I can't figure out: 「おきをつけていってらっしゃい。」 I figure it's some kind of friendly gesture for one going on a trip, but could I get a breakdown? どうも。

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

It's a polite way to say,

気を付けて行って来て！

 

[J44xm]

そうですか。 Then this is essentially saying "Be careful going and coming," or less literally, "Be careful in your travels," correct?

 

[undrentide]

J44xmさん、いよいよですね。
Yes, as you guessed, it is a greeting for your trip with a very friendly feeling.
お気をつけて: お (to make it polite)+ 気をつけて < 気をつける = to take care (of yourself)
いってらっしゃい: as @Mikawa Ossan mentioned, it was derived from 行って来る (to go to come back/return), いらっしゃる is a very polite way to say 来る.
いってらっしゃい is a polite imperative form, and is used as a greeting when seeing someone out - and someone is supposed to be back.
(The one who is going out says いってきます.)

 

[epigene]

そうですか。 Then this is essentially saying "Be careful going and coming," or less literally, "Be careful in your travels," correct?

It means "Have a safe trip!"
Bon voyage, J44xm-san!! Post back when you arrive in Japan!

Edit: undredtide-san beat me to it... I'll stick to the baseball thread...

 

[J44xm]

Ah, I didn't yet know that 「いらっしゃい」 was derived from 「来る」. 面白いです。 ありがとう！（Ｅｐｉｇｅｎｅさん、大丈夫ですね。）

^_^

 

[Kama]

ポチは「ポチっと」というボタンを押す様子を表す言葉からきています。
クリポチは「ポチッとクリックする」の短縮型です。
クリポチする means click on a button on a Web page
to give a good reputation to the Web site (mainly it's blog).
クリ comes from クリック（click）,
and ポチ comes from ポチっと which express an action of button clicking.

Now I understand, thank you.