Need a word or phrase translated?

[vivista]

can someone translate this into japanese for me (or sumin similar)

"i loved you yesterday,
i love you today,
i'll love you tomorrow,
love you always baby"

and

"happy sixth month aniversary"

and i was wondering as a casual modern way does "大好きです" make sense? xD wot about "大愛してるわ" ?

 

[Toritoribe]

@Simi-san,

６. This computer is not popular because it is inconvenient.
不便なので/使いにくいのでこのコンピュータは人気がありません。
*不具合(the noun): failure/trouble/problem

７．The 8th of next month is Mr Nakamura's birthday.
literally, 来月の八日はなかむらさんの誕生日です。

１０. I got to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month.

"I go to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month."?
or
as the meaning of "I've got to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month."?

the former: 私は毎月二十日に病院の近くへ/に行きます。
the latter: 私は毎月二十日に病院の近くへ/に行かなければいけません。

１１．Please hold the chopsticks by your right hand, and the rice bowl by your left hand.
右手で(お)箸を、左手で(お)茶碗を持って下さい。

１２．Have you finished your essay yet?
もうエッセイは書き終わりましたか。

Whether in a declarative or an interrogative sentence, もう is used in an affirmative sentence. In contrast, まだ is used in a negative sentence.
e.g.
もう書き終わりました。(I've already finished.)
もう書き終わりましたか？(Have you finished yet?)
まだ書き終わっていません。(I haven't finished yet.)
まだ書き終わっていませんか？(Haven't you finished yet?)

１３．I went to Australia with my friend in the middle of last month.
私は先月の中旬/頃(に)友達とオーストラリアに行きました。

１４．My teacher's car is red and big.
私の先生の車は赤くて大きいです。
correct!

１５．I usually go to the library in the early morning and study Japanese.
わたしはたいてい早朝図書館に行って日本語の勉強をします。
correct!
you can also say
わたしはたいてい朝早く図書館に行って日本語の勉強をします。

hope this helps

 

[Elizabeth]

to feed the cat is 猫に餌をあたえます or 猫に餌をやります.
あげます is a kind of honorific and too polite to use for pets. ;-)

猫をやる may be out of step with most women today, but I agree completely. Even as a devoted cat lover, I can distinguish between caring for them and the level of respect that my superiors or other people's children are due.

 

[undrentide]

10. I got to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month.
私は毎月の二十日に病 院の側近くへ行きます。

I got to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month.
毎月２０日、近くの病院に行かなくてはなりません。

毎月２０日、病院の近くに／病院のそばに行かなくてはなりません。
I got to near the hospital on the 20th of every month.

 

[Ashikaga]

I got to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month.
毎月２０日、近くの病院に行かなくてはなりません。

毎月２０日、病院の近くに／病院のそばに行かなくてはなりません。
I got to near the hospital on the 20th of every month.

There seems to be a mistake in the original English sentence. Shouldn't it have been " I GO to the nearby hospital..." ? If it really wanted to say "I got to" as in the colloquial form of " I have to", it lacks the verb GO ( I got to go to the hospital...). As for the example Undrentide gave, it would sound more natural to say " I go near the hospital..." minus the "to".

So, I think the correct traslation would be, provided my guess was right,
私は、毎月20日に近くの病院へ行きます。

 

[Elizabeth]

can someone translate this into japanese for me (or sumin similar)

"I loved you yesterday,
I love you today,
I'll love you tomorrow,
love you always baby"

and

"happy sixth month anniversary"

and I was wondering as a casual modern way does "大好きです" make sense? xD wot about "大愛してるわ" ?

大好きです is fine. 大愛してる I've never heard.

So is it すき or 愛する ?

Or less is more, simple and concise: "My feelings for you haven't changed one bit, dear."



あなたへの気持ち（思い）は、全く変わっていない。

 

[Toritoribe]

I got to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month.
毎月２０日、近くの病院に行かなくてはなりません。

毎月２０日、病院の近くに／病院のそばに行かなくてはなりません。
I got to near the hospital on the 20th of every month.

Ah, exactly. Sorry.
確かに「病院の近くに行く」っていう状況あんまりないですもんね。

There seems to be a mistake in the original English sentence. Shouldn't it have been " I GO to the nearby hospital..." ? If it really wanted to say "I got to" as in the colloquial form of " I have to", it lacks the verb GO ( I got to go to the hospital...). As for the example Undrentide gave, it would sound more natural to say " I go near the hospital..." minus the "to".
So, I think the correct traslation would be, provided my guess was right,
私は、毎月20日に近くの病院へ行きます。

多分typoのほうなんでしょうね。

 

[Simi]

Thank you for all the responses.
And yes sorry about the mistake in the sentence. The original English sentence was suppose to be "I go to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month."

One final question.. so it is better to use:
私は毎月20日に病院の近くへ行きます。
or
私は毎月20日に近くの病院へ行きます。

 

[Elizabeth]

Thank you for all the responses.
And yes sorry about the mistake in the sentence. The original English sentence was suppose to be "I go to the nearby hospital on the 20th of every month."

One final question.. so it is better to use:
私は毎月20日に病院の近くへ行きます。
or
私は毎月20日に近くの病院へ行きます。

Nearby hospital と言いたかったので、二つ目の文は正しいです。

一つ目の文は、Near the hospital って事なので、意味がぜんぜん違ってきますね。

 

[Elizabeth]

右手で(お)箸を、左手で(お)茶碗を持って下さい。
１２．Have you finished your essay yet?
もうエッセイは書き終わりましたか。
Whether in a declarative or an interrogative sentence, もう is used in an affirmative sentence. In contrast, まだ is used in a negative sentence.
e.g.
もう書き終わりました。(I've already finished.)
もう書き終わりましたか？(Have you finished yet?)
まだ書き終わっていません。(I haven't finished yet.)
まだ書き終わっていませんか？(Haven't you finished yet?)

私はもう終わらないだろう。

または、終わったことはもうほとんどない。 ？？？

 

[Niedy]

In that context, タメ is probably used as 同い年/同級生; the same age.
And you're right. タッパ means (person's) height.
e.g. タッパがある ＝ tall
hope this helps

yes, this helps a great deal. thanks a lot

 

[Toritoribe]

私はもう終わらないだろう。

または、終わったことはもうほとんどない。 ？？？

Right. もう can be used also in a negative sentence, and まだ also in an affirmative sentence.

もうこれ以上戦えない。(I can't fight anymore.)
彼とはもう二度と会わない。(I would never see him again.)

まだ戦える。(I can still fight.)
まだ雨は降り続いている。(It's still raining.)

The meanings are completely changed from "yet/already", though.
(I should have put the precondition "as for yet/already context" on my post above.)
)

 

[Elizabeth]

Right. もう can be used also in a negative sentence, and まだ also in an affirmative sentence.
もうこれ以上戦えない。(I can't fight anymore.)
彼とはもう二度と会わない。(I would never see him again.)
まだ戦える。(I can still fight.)
まだ雨は降り続いている。(It's still raining.)
The meanings are completely changed from "yet/already", though.
(I should have put the precondition "as for yet/already context" on my post above.)

OK, actually...it was a bit of a stupid joke on my part since I thought you were referring only to 終わる。 もう終わらない (I'll never finish) is an unlikely response and まだ also doesn't seem to work with the affirmative. Just like it makes my head hurt to have to think of まだ雨が止んでいない or もう雨が止んだ。



そうですね。「もう」というのは、肯定文には制限されていないです。 しかし、この場合は、
「もう終わらない」という反応も一般的にはあまり聞かないでしょうね。と言いたかったのですよ。

 

[Toritoribe]

OK, actually...it was a bit of a stupid joke on my part since I thought you were referring only to 終わる。 もう終わらない (I'll never finish) is an unlikely response and まだ also doesn't seem to work with the affirmative. Just like it makes my head hurt to have to think of まだ雨が止んでいない or もう雨が止んだ。

そうですね。「もう」というのは、肯定文には制限されていないです。 しかし、この場合は、
「もう終わらない」という反応も一般的にはあまり聞かないでしょうね。と言いたかったのですよ。

否定文の中の「もう」は「ない」を強調するような役割になりますね。だから「もうできない」とか「もう言わない」とかの可能形・意思形で使われることが多いです。「もう終わらない」は妙だけど、「もう終われない」はありえそうな感じしませんか？(多分「やめられない」の文脈で。)

ちなみに、日本語では「もう」なのに英文では"yet" になる肯定の疑問文「もう書き終わりましたか？(Have you finished yet?)」のパターンは、日本の学校の英語教育現場でものすごく頻繁に試験に出されます。英訳するとき、日本語に引っ張られて"Have you already finished?"としがちになるから。英文としては成立するけど、これだとニュアンスが変わっちゃいますもんね。
だから和訳が「まだ終わりましたか？」になったのも、ひょっとして同じ理由なのかなと思ったんですよね。

 

[undrentide]

Ah, exactly. Sorry.
確かに「病院の近くに行く」っていう状況あんまりないですもんね。

いや、私も実は和訳をみてどっちを言いたいのかな？とちょっと迷いました。

ASHIKAGA san, thank you for your follow-up on the English part.
It should have been either I go to... or I've got to go to...

 

[Niedy]

Hi!
This time I think it's more of a grammar than a translation problem.

解けそうで解けなくて

I understand this as "not being able to solve something", correct? but how is this grammar actually used? I didn't find it in my grammar book, but maybe I looked in the wrong place...

Thanks!

 

[Ashikaga]

Hi!
This time I think it's more of a grammar than a translation problem.

解けそうで解けなくて

I understand this as "not being able to solve something", correct? but how is this grammar actually used? I didn't find it in my grammar book, but maybe I looked in the wrong place...

Thanks!

Let us say you are trying to solve a math problem which looks very simple. However, when you actually start working on it, while you come close to solving it, you don't quite make it.

解けそう you can almost solve it
解けない but you can't

Another example.

You are witnessing your pet horse Edna give birth. The baby horse looks like it's going to drop any moment but it doesn't for a while.

生まれそうで生まれない

 

[Niedy]

Let us say you are trying to solve a math problem which looks very simple. However, when you actually start working on it, while you come close to solving it, you don't quite make it.

I thought it might be something like that, but I couldn't completely grasp it.... thx a lot

trying to avoid a double post...
I found this "nice" kanji chain, which names some kind of math problem (or something)...

等比関数列型

I tried to break the chain up (my dictionaries don't have the complete word) and I came up with 2 possible meanings, but I had to either leave out 関 or 列... so I was wondering what it actually really means

a.) geometric linear function
b.) geometric linear progression

等比 - geometric
関数 - function
数列 - progression
型 - linear

thx

 

[japlearning]

I saw this and was curious to both the translation and meaning
何十年、何百年、何千年、時を超えよう、君を愛してる

There is some chinese and japanese following afterwards. Thank you for your help!

 

[Kirakira1232]

I saw this and was curious to both the translation and meaning
何十年、何百年、何千年、時を超えよう、君を愛してる
There is some chinese and japanese following afterwards. Thank you for your help!

何十年
nanjuu nen
Tens of years

何百年
nanhyaku nen
Hundreds of years

何千年
nansennen
Thousands of years

時を超えよう
toki wo koeyou
We cross over time

君を愛してる
kimi wo aishiteru
I love you.

So...

"We cross over time for tens of years, hundreds of years, thousands of years. I love you."

 

[Toritoribe]

I found this "nice" kanji chain, which names some kind of math problem (or something)...

等比関数列型

I tried to break the chain up (my dictionaries don't have the complete word) and I came up with 2 possible meanings, but I had to either leave out 関 or 列... so I was wondering what it actually really means

a.) geometric linear function
b.) geometric linear progression

等比 - geometric
関数 - function
数列 - progression
型 - linear

Thanks

等比関数列 generally means 等比数列(geometric progression).
So 等比関数列型 probably means "geometric progression type/a type of geometric progression".

Hope this helps

 

[Elizabeth]

何十年
nanjuu nen
Tens of years

何百年
nanhyaku nen
Hundreds of years

何千年
nansennen
Thousands of years

時を超えよう
toki wo koeyou
We cross over time

君を愛してる
kimi wo aishiteru
I love you.

So...

"We cross over time for tens of years, hundreds of years, thousands of years. I love you."

How the song is understandable : Let's cross over/walk through the span of life (together).

More semi-literally : Let's spend tens, hundreds or thousands of years together. I love you.

 

[Simi]

I'm having some trouble translating this シドニーは人や店が大きくてにぎやかです into an understandable and grammatically correct English sentence. Any ideas?
I've be ever so grateful for the help.
thanks!

 

[Buntaro]

シドニーは人や店が大きくてにぎやかです

→ Sydney, with all its people and shops, is large and bustling.

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

シドニーは人や店が大きくてにぎやかです
→ Sydney, with all its people and shops, is large and bustling.

Actually, with this construction of ～は～が～です, the meaning would be more like,

The people and shops of Sydney are large and bustling.