Need a word or phrase translated?

[orochi]

どうやら、俺は死んだらしい。

"Somehow I died it seem's"

Is that what it say's?

That's what masaegu said.
But you should fix seem's to seems.

 

[roman_torkit]

Hi,
could you tell me please if this is correct:?
わたしはあなたがすきです - I really like you.
Thanks a lot.

 

[Homerduff]

Hi,
could you tell me please if this is correct:?
わたしはあなたがすきです - I really like you.
Thanks allot.

Correct, as for the 'I like you' part. To add 'really' to it you should say:

私（わたし）は貴方（あなた）が本当に（ほんとうに）すき（だ）。

I don't think it would be very common to add 'です' at the end of this phrase, knowing you would probably tell this to someone with who you are familiar with. You could add 'だ' to make the phrase 'stronger'.

 

[Onkel]

If anyone would be able to translate.... thanks

今朝、電話しました。いつもと同じ時間でした。受話器から流れて来る声が、メッセージだと解った時は淋しかった。
『知らない事がある』事が寂しい。
大好きなのに、何も知らない事が悲しい。

 

[undrentide]

Correct, as for the 'I like you' part. To add 'really' to it you should say:
私（わたし）は貴方（あなた）が本当に（ほんとうに）すき（だ）。
I don't think it would be very common to add 'です' at the end of this phrase, knowing you would probably tell this to someone with who you are familiar with. You could add 'だ' to make the phrase 'stronger'.

Good explanation, @Homerduff .
Just please let me add something...
好きです is quite commonly used, especially when the speaker is female.
While it is correct that だ is used for emphasis, 好きだ sounds a bit roughish and normally only male uses it.
When there's no context, it is safer to write あなた in hiragana.
貴方 is usually used for male, 貴女 is used for female.
And あなた in hiragana is the most commonly used.

 

[roman_torkit]

Thank you very much Homerduff and undrentide. I still have so much to learn I feel like my 1 year old daughter, who just starts to pronounce some sounds Thank you again!
And there is another question. Could you please help me to type this in kanji or hiragana?
Issho-ni yoake no koohii nomanai?
Shall we drink morning coffee together?
kokusai-kouryuu wo fukameru
Deepening the level of international exchange
Mae-ni atta-koto aru?
Don't I know you from somewhere?
Thank you in advance!:joyful:

 

[undrentide]

And there is another question. Could you please help me to type this in kanji or hiragana?
Issho-ni yoake no koohii nomanai?
Shall we drink morning coffee together?
kokusai-kouryuu wo fukameru
Deepening the level of international exchange
Mae-ni atta-koto aru?
Don't I know you from somewhere?
Thank you in advance!:hey:

Issho-ni yoake no koohii nomanai?
一緒に夜明けのコーヒー飲まない？
Shall we drink coffee of the dawn together?
夜明け = dawn
I don't know the context, but if you're saying to someone of opposite sex, it would sounds like you're suggesting to spend a night together!
If this is not what you have in mind and you simply want to suggest to have morning coffee,
一緒にモーニング・コーヒを飲まない？
issho ni mooningu koohii nomanai?
would be much "safer".
(By the way, 飲まない？ is rather a casual expression you'd use for your friends or family. If you want to be politer, you can say 飲みませんか？ instead.)
kokusai-kouryuu wo fukameru
国際交流を深める。
Deepening the level of international exchange
(Your interpretation is correct.)
Mae-ni atta-koto aru?
前に会ったことある？
Have we met before?
(This is also a casual style, same as "nomanai?")
Hope this helps.

 

[Elizabeth]

なぜですか。つまらないからですか、それとも。。。

25歳を超せば（２５歳を過ごしたら、 ２５歳以上の人は）「めちゃ」という若者言葉を「とても、すごく」と置き換えた方が無難だと思いますね。

 

[Elizabeth]

Correct, as for the 'I like you' part. To add 'really' to it you should say:
私（わたし）は貴方（あなた）が本当に（ほんとうに）すき（だ）。
I don't think it would be very common to add 'です' at the end of this phrase, knowing you would probably tell this to someone with who you are familiar with. You could add 'だ' to make the phrase 'stronger'.

Although if someone told me あなたが本当に好きです I think I would be more frightened than flattered。Normally, if you really like someone you'll use their name instead of あなた and 好き can imply a strong liking without piling on other modifiers. It really depends on the situation and how much of a nonliteral translation is understood...

 

[Elizabeth]

Don't I know you from somewhere?
Thank you in advance!:joyful:

More formally this could be:

どこかで、会いましたか？ (Have we met somewhere ?)
どこかで会った気がする (I know you from somewhere....).

You're welcome.

 

[kuro$agi]

Hello ..

I need a correct translation to these words, which they are japanese dishes. I looked at some dictionaries and found those words only:

Sushi =まきずし
Sukiyaki =すきやき
Udon =うどん
Donburi =うなぎ丼

Tasty = oishii = おいしい

but i didnt find anything regarding these two:

肉じゃが= Nikujaga
やきとり = Yakitori

If its possible, i need your help to check out those if they are correct and the ones that are above too 'cause i dont trust dictionaries that much.

 

[Homerduff]

Correct, only うなぎ丼 is Unagidonburi (donburi with eel). Not all donburi have eel I think.

Would someone be so kind to double-check a Japanese mail I've wrote to my host family ?:

never mind, already found someone.

 

[Fuumei]

クリスマスのデコレーションは奇麗だし、確かに不思議とうきうきした気分になりますね。

[ 確かに不思議とうきうきした気分になりますね。]

The question I have is this part of the sentence. "fushigi to ukiuki shita kibun"

Does this mean "Feeling mysteriously cheery" as I suspect it to be? If anyone can clarify this for me I would be very grateful.

 

[Elizabeth]

今朝、電話しました。いつもと同じ時間でした。受話器から流れて来る声が、メッセージだと解った時は淋しかった。
『知らない事がある』事が寂しい。
大好きなのに、何も知らない事が悲しい。

He/you called this morning at the usual time. When I realized for certain it was his/your smooth voice over the receiver, I was lonely. It is lonely not knowing things. Although I love, it is sad not to know anything.

 

[regregreg]

to kuro$agi:
Sushi is お寿司 (o-sushi). まきずし (maki-zushi) is the little round sushi only.
Also, my dictionary says that 肉じゃが (nikujaga) is "meat and potato stew", and I doubt that it has an English name other than Nikujaga. やきとり (yakitori) is grilled chicken or some other roasted bird. I think. ^^

 

[Buntaro]

Nikujaga is potato soup, and it is a popular side-dish in bars in Japan.

 

[SushiShin]

Did someone saw Gokusen (season I) Episode II?

in the beginning somewhere Matsumoto Jun saids something like: Nakama? nakama te kata ni janai yo or something: the subs were : Friends? don't use that word easily

(source: Gokusen Episode 2 - video Dailymotion )
(at lenght : 00 : 14:05 there you see Jun saying the phrase)

can someone help me please?

 

[ajmd20]

I heard 仲間仲間って簡単に言うんじゃねえよ。

 

[namichidori]

Sushi means either "にぎり寿司(nigiri-zushi)" or a category name.
The category includes にぎり寿司、手巻き寿司、巻き寿司、ちらしずし、押し寿司, etc.

Donburi refers to "a Japanese bowl" or a dish category name, "donburi-mono".
Donburi-mono means a Japanese rice bowl dish. It includes 牛丼(with beef)、
カツ丼(with pork cutlets)、親子丼(with egg and chiken)、天丼(with tempura), and so on.

やきとり(yakitori) is skewered and grilled chicken with soy sauce taste,
and really tasty when it is char-grilled well, I think.

While we often cook 肉じゃが at home,
やきとり is mainly served at Japanese-style pubs.
Both of them are very popular in pubs/bars as written above.

 

[namichidori]

クリスマスのデコレーションは奇麗だし、確かに不思議とうきうきした気分になりますね。
[ 確かに不思議とうきうきした気分になりますね。]
The question I have is this part of the sentence. "fushigi to ukiuki shita kibun"
Does this mean "Feeling mysteriously cheery" as I suspect it to be? If anyone can clarify this for me I would be very grateful.

The nuance of "mysteriously" is not so strong.
不思議と～になる is often used in Japanese,
but in most cases, it has little to do with mystery/supernatural phenomena.

I'd say it's more like "somehow".
"I don't know why, but somehow I'm feeling exhilarated."

 

[kuro$agi]

Homerduff, regregreg, Buntaro, and namichidori.

Thank you so much, you helped me alot. ^^

 

[Charles Barkley]

I'm looking for a word that means something like 'to create' or 'to shape the development of'--essentially a word that means to cause something to come into being.

What I want to say: I am interested in reading traditional stories like Momotarou because they have helped to shape Japanese values.

My attempt in Japanese:

桃太郎を初め、伝統的な日本の物語に興味を持っています。なぜかと言えば、現在の日本人の価値観を決定づけたんですから。

決定づける--> I have no confidence in this phrase as I just kind of stumbled upon it in my dictionary. Would this work here? If not, what would?

Also, how would I express the sentiment 'to help' in this context? I wouldn't say, in English anyway, that those stories 'shaped japanese' sense of values' because there are certainly other factors. How do I express that its one of several factors? Does adding something like ある程度まで at the beginning of sentence two work? Is there a smoother way, possibly by changing the verb somehow?

 

[elkerb123]

A long translation but very important

ok so I need this translated to English its very important to me looks like parts of a song but here's why I need it translated my girlfriend has been going through some tough times and so have we and she put this in her away message. Its very important so if someone can please help me. Thank you

"Dooku de iki o shiteru toomei ni natta mitai
Kudayami ni omoe dakedo mekaku shisarete tadake

Inori o sasagete atarashii hi o matsu
Asasyaka ni hikaru umi sono hate made

Hito no kokoro wa utsuriyuku mukedashiteku naru
Tsuki wa mada atarashii shuuki de mune o tsureteku

Tabi wa mada tsuzuiteku odayakana hi mo
Tsuki wa mata atarashii shuuki de ume o terashidasu

Inori o sasagete atarashii hi o matsu
asayaka ni hikaru umi sono hate made..."

 

[ajmd20]

It is from an anime called Bleach.
Anime Lyrics dot Com - Life is Like a Boat - BLEACH - Anime

 

[roman_torkit]

Issho-ni yoake no koohii nomanai?
一緒に夜明けのコーヒー飲まない？
Shall we drink coffee of the dawn together?
夜明け = dawn
I don't know the context, but if you're saying to someone of opposite sex, it would sounds like you're suggesting to spend a night together!
If this is not what you have in mind and you simply want to suggest to have morning coffee,
一緒にモーニング・コーヒを飲まない？
issho ni mooningu koohii nomanai?
would be much "safer".
(By the way, 飲まない？ is rather a casual expression you'd use for your friends or family. If you want to be politer, you can say 飲みませんか？ instead.)
kokusai-kouryuu wo fukameru
国際交流を深める。
Deepening the level of international exchange
(Your interpretation is correct.)
Mae-ni atta-koto aru?
前に会ったことある？
Have we met before?
(This is also a casual style, same as "nomanai?")
Hope this helps.

Thank you so much, undrentide!!!