Need a word or phrase translated?

lol, makes sence. Thanks.
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could someone please give a wrod (phrase) which conveys the the same feeling in english as in japanese:
"just kidding; jk" = ??
"nevermind" = まあ、いいか (?)
"oh my god!" = あれまあ;おやまあ (?)

「トミー...君が一生懸命に仕事をやってくれているのはわかる ん だ けどねぇ...こんな景気で我が社も人員削減を考えなくちゃならないんだよ。 悪いけど来年からまたパートタイムに戻ってくれないか? ....って言うのは冗談! 来年もがんばってね。」

「年末宝くじに10万円使ったって!? 最近、会社を首になったって言ってなかった?
大体お前は昔からそうなんだよ。 計画性がないって言うかなんていうか... この間だってさぁ...... ま、 い いや。 俺には関係のない事だし。」

「げっ!!! 財布を家に忘れてきちゃった!!!」

 
ははは、面白い例を作ってくれましたね、足利さん!

「しまった」も「oh my god」のある意味として使う場合もありますね。
「しまった!傘を持ってくるの忘れちまった!」とかね。でも、驚きなら相応しくないですけどね。「なに〜」なんかはどうでしょうか。
 
How would you say: "I am not holding my breath"... Like if you were waiting for something to happen, but you knew that it likely wouldn't.
 
How would you say: "I am not holding my breath"... Like if you were waiting for something to happen, but you knew that it likely wouldn't.

I guess you'd just need to say something like, あまり期待していない (Amari kitaishiteinai) / I'm not expecting much, I'm not getting my hopes up.
 
New Year Greeting!

I would like to know how to formally congratulate a Japanese person for new year with something that goes beyond just "明けましておめでとうございます"。

ありがとう!
 
良いお年を gets used pretty commonly as well. I guess if you wanted to get adventurous you could say something like 来年も幸せになりますように. I was just kind of thinking on my feet with that one.
 
ありがとう Glennさん。

Just to make sure, would it mean something close to "may you have a good year"?
 
良いお年を gets used pretty commonly as well. I guess if you wanted to get adventurous you could say something like 来年も幸せになりますように. I was just kind of thinking on my feet with that one.
BTW, you can only say 良いお年を before new Year's. Once New Year's hits, 良いお年を is out.
 
(sorry for the romaji; i cant type in japanese on this computer.)

How would you say "I don't know (understand) what you said."

is it:

"nani o itta ka wakarimasen"

I'm not so sure.

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu !!
 
Yes. You could also add の, which would give it a sense of being more lost as far as I can tell: 何を言ったのか解りません。
 
「手がぷにぷにしている」

1. 私が読んでる少年漫画で、若い実業家が主人公に何かを売ろうとしています。
申し出をする前に、実業家が人差し指を唇に当てて「ちちち」と言います。
その「ちちち」はどういう意味ですか。猫とかを呼ぶ時に使われていると分かる
けど、人々を呼ぶ時にも使われていますか。
2. 「手がぷにぷにしている」っていったいどういうことですか。手が太って骨がなさ
そうとかいいますか。ずっと分かんない...
よろしくお願いいたしますね。
 
1. 私が読んでる少年漫画で、若い実業家が主人公に何かを売ろうとしています。
申し出をする前に、実業家が人差し指を唇に当てて「ちちち」と言います。
その「ちちち」はどういう意味ですか。猫とかを呼ぶ時に使われていると分かる
けど、人々を呼ぶ時にも使われていますか。
前後の文脈を見ないと何とも言えません。特にマンガやアニメでは、普通は使わない独特の言葉遣いをよくしますから。

2. 「手がぷにぷにしている」っていったいどういうことですか。
基本的には「太っていて柔らかい」というような意味です。猫の肉球(cat's pad)のような感触を「ぷにぷにしている」と表現することが多いですね。

手が太って骨がなさそうとかいいますか。
言いません。
 
I'm going to write a late (very late) Christmas card for my Japanese teachers, because I promised I would, but I want to say more then "あけまして おめでと
ございます" I want to say, "I hope you all and your families are happy and healthy. Please continue to guide me throughout 2009, best wishes", something like that. Can someone please help translate 👋
 
Hi
Got this japanese from japan yahoo kids. My attempt to translate xD
The bit in red is the bit that I can't translate. Can someone help, and also validate my translation?

JR東京駅の新幹線のホームで、
かけこみ乗車を防止するために、発車ベルをメロディーに変えたんだって。はげしいベルを聞くと、確かにあせって、走って乗ろうとしちゃうよね。
At JR Tokyo's Shinkansen platform, the departure bell rings for the safety of everyone during the stampede to enter the train. (From this point, I don't understand...)

Thanks, black_whispers
 
You're close.

"I heard that in order to prevent people from running on to trains at the JR Tokyo Station's Shinkansen platform they've changed the bells that signal departure to melodies. When you hear a harsh bell, certainly you'll get frantic and run onto the train."

I went with trying to keep the English as close to the Japanese as possible in the sense of the meanings of words more so than the mood, so it's not the best translation. A few points:

〜したんだって is used to quote something indirectly.

激しいベルを聞くと is "when (people) hear a harsh (violent) bell," and what follows is a natural sort of reaction to it (i.e., you get flustered and end up running onto the train). That's the sort of defining characteristic of と versus なら, たら, and ば.

走って乗ろうとしちゃう contains a lot. 走って乗る is "board running," that is the 走って can be looked at like an adverb here: it's describing how you're boarding the train. しようとする means to try to do something, so 乗ろうとする means try to board (the train). -てしまう means "do something regrattably/irreversibly," and here it has a sense that running onto the train would end up with undesireable results. -てしまう often gets contracted to -ちゃう in casual speech.
 
天気予報によると、今日は雨だそうだ。
- According to the weather forecast, I hear today is rain.

I've never seen
da sou da, is this common or even accurate?
I can tell its impolite/plain.
 
It's the そうだ of hearsay, and it's pretty common when you're reporting something you've heard. It's the same as 彼は今日来ないそうだ and このお菓子はおいしいそうです. You just stick it onto the end of a sentence to show that it's something you've heard. Another example like the one you gave: 彼は演説が得意だそうだ。
 
Ohh, yeah I remember that. :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Thanks glen!

Oh, and in that last example, what does it mean? I got the other ones but not that one.
 
It means "I hear he's really good at giving addresses (speeches)."
 
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