Need a word or phrase translated?
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Fuumei
眼鏡が要る
- 18 Sep 2005
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Ah that's exactly it. I looked back again and I can't believe I totally misread the Kanji. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
undrentide
Japa'n vagyok
- 18 Jan 2006
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Both refer to the same thing, "blue sky".
Aoi sora consist of two words, aoi (adjective meaning blue) and sora (noun meaning sky), the adjective modifies the noun.
Aozora is a one word, noun, meaning the sky which is blue.
This is a toughie even for a native speaker. For the most part, those two phrases are identical in meaning. They are almost always interchangeable. But there is at least one case in which you can use only one of the two phrases.
Sometimes you look in the sky at night and feel that the sky looks bluish with all the bright stars. In that case, a Japanese speaker may call the sky 'aoi yozora = blue night sky' or 'usuaoi sora = light blue sky' , but he/she would never call it 'aozora'. 'Aozora' can only be seen during the day time.
In that sense, one may safely say that the word 'aozora' is slightly more restrictive in its meaning than the phrase 'aoi sora'.
undrentide
Japa'n vagyok
- 18 Jan 2006
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undrentide, masaegu: Thank you so much!
(Also, a big gold star to undrentide for learning Hungarian!!!)
Douitashimashite. (Szi'vesen.)
Ookina kin'no hoshi wo arigatou! (E's ko:szo:ｎo:ｍ a nagy, arany csillagot!)
Kouyuu
後輩
- 16 Oct 2007
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Hi hi, I'm new here, and I just had a quick question about a sign I'm trying to write for my Baseball team (which is kicking butt like omg!)
It's for Kazuo Matsui, and I wanted to write a sign in Japanese, so I'd just like to make sure what I have is correct to prevent me from looking foolish~
松井 頑張って!
Yep, that took me forever to do, haha. ^^;
Anyways, thank you very much for your time considering this n00b's question~!
m(_ _)m
It's for Kazuo Matsui, and I wanted to write a sign in Japanese, so I'd just like to make sure what I have is correct to prevent me from looking foolish~
松井 頑張って!
Yep, that took me forever to do, haha. ^^;
Anyways, thank you very much for your time considering this n00b's question~!
m(_ _)m
味は明日の朝わかるんだけど .... shall know the taste tomorrow morning
お味は如何ほど？taste undecided :?
Am I understanding these sentences correctly.皆さん ,おしえてください
Where did you get the 'undecided' part from?
お味は如何ほど？ means "How is (was) the taste?"
Hi hi, I'm new here, and I just had a quick question about a sign I'm trying to write for my Baseball team (which is kicking butt like omg!)
It's for Kazuo Matsui, and I wanted to write a sign in Japanese, so I'd just like to make sure what I have is correct to prevent me from looking foolish~
松井 頑張って!
Yep, that took me forever to do, haha. ^^;
Anyways, thank you very much for your time considering this n00b's question~!
m(_ _)m
You won't look foolish. You will only look feminine with that sign. But if you want to go feminine in a better-sounding way, add さん to 松井 to obtain the right balance with that nice and gentle 'って' ending.
tokapi
後輩
- 8 Sep 2007
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うっかり間違えちゃうね～ .... typo ....
Good,you confirmed how I understood it.どうもありがとうございます
* 如何 = how
Elizabeth
先輩
- 22 Apr 2003
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I don't understand....is this saying I make foolish mistakes ??うっかり間違えちゃうね～ .... typo ....
And drop the ちゃう when you want to sound serious....
Kouyuu
後輩
- 16 Oct 2007
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Oh wow, thank you so much for your quick response! You actually answered the next question I would've had, so thanks again for being so thorough~!
Hi there....I think it's great you guys are personally translating things for people!
I was wondering if you could translate a few sentences from English to Japanese for me if it's not too much trouble...xD
1. AppleFish Studios Inc.
2. Welcome to our site!
I know the first doesn't make much sense, since it is made by putting 2 words together....anything even relatively close will suffice, I'll give you a thousand hugs if you can translate it =D
One more question, does it matter if it's written horizontally or vertically? are the characters the same?
Thanks a bunch!
Vincent
I was wondering if you could translate a few sentences from English to Japanese for me if it's not too much trouble...xD
1. AppleFish Studios Inc.
2. Welcome to our site!
I know the first doesn't make much sense, since it is made by putting 2 words together....anything even relatively close will suffice, I'll give you a thousand hugs if you can translate it =D
One more question, does it matter if it's written horizontally or vertically? are the characters the same?
Thanks a bunch!
Vincent
Charles Barkley
TNT Basketball Analyst
- 14 Jun 2007
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Last night I was watching that TV show with whatever-her-name 'Sensei' (the fortune-teller) on it, and her guest was a model who had lived in America. The phrase 日本かぶれ or 外国かぶれ kept being used. What does かぶれ mean exactly and how do I use it?
Also, what does NG mean in Japanese? I think its some kind of slang, as it was written like that in the subtitles, and came in the context of ロケＮＧ。 ロケ if I remember correctly meant locker room?
Also, what does NG mean in Japanese? I think its some kind of slang, as it was written like that in the subtitles, and came in the context of ロケＮＧ。 ロケ if I remember correctly meant locker room?
orochi
便利屋
- 1 May 2004
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>The phrase 日本かぶれ or 外国かぶれ kept being used. What does かぶれ mean exactly and how do I use it?
日本かぶれ would be somebody who is really into Japanese stuff.
外国かぶれ would be (a Japanese person) who is really into foreign stuff.
>Also, what does NG mean in Japanese?
NG means "no good", "no go, "no", "bad", etc.
ロケ means location. In that context, it refers to the location of where the tv spot will be filmed. ロケNG means they were not permitted to film there.
p.s. I saw the show last night, too. Pretty good episode.
日本かぶれ would be somebody who is really into Japanese stuff.
外国かぶれ would be (a Japanese person) who is really into foreign stuff.
>Also, what does NG mean in Japanese?
NG means "no good", "no go, "no", "bad", etc.
ロケ means location. In that context, it refers to the location of where the tv spot will be filmed. ロケNG means they were not permitted to film there.
p.s. I saw the show last night, too. Pretty good episode.
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orochi
便利屋
- 1 May 2004
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Your company name does not necessarily need to be "translated". You just need to decide how you want it to appear to Japanese consumers. You could leave it in English, since the typical Japanese person would understand the name as it is given the content. The other route would be to write your company's name in katakana, which is used when transliterating foreign words:
アップルフィッシュ・スタジオ株式会社
(The last four characters mean "Inc.")
As for 2, a simple ようこそ (welcome) would probably suffice, though I don't typically see a welcome message sort on most large, reputable company's websites, so feel free to leave it off. I would recommend that, actually.
It's the noun suffix 気触れ, derived from 気触れる, meaning "to be influenced" by something.
名詞の下に付いて、影響を受けてその風(ふう)に染まる意を表す。
「西洋―」「英国―」
undrentide
Japa'n vagyok
- 18 Jan 2006
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As a side note, I'd like to add that かぶれ originally means a kind of skin disease (got irritation and/or rash on the skin by poison ivy etc.) so ～かぶれ is normally used with negative connotation.
