Need a word or phrase translated?

[Gracefully]

わかりません is simply a polite form of わからない, thus, they are quite the same in meaning.
"To not know" would be more likely 知らない (depending on context, off course).

I see, thank you for clearing that up for me.

So that means 知らない's more polite form is 知りません?

 

[quamp]

That's exactly わ + 濁点; voiced consonant mark. It's an interjection to show the speaker is more strongly surprised than when s/he says わー！！, and is sometimes used especially in manga.

ありがとうございます.

Quamp> I can tell you that you will never seen anything like that for a test, so if you are just asking out of curiosity that's fine, but if you are seriously studying the language, knowing about the way stuff like that is written manga is not going to help get you a passing grade.

I'm asking because I've been asked to translate this doujin and I want to make sure I get it right.
I know that the way people talk in doujins is miles away from the way real Japanese people speak.

 

[Elizabeth]

Tae Kim's site has the explanation.
Using the Question Marker - Tae Kim's Japanese grammar guide
Note:
As pocopoco-san wrote, 誰も can be used also in an affirmative sentence with the particle が, but 誰でも might be more common in these days.
誰もが参加できる。 ＝ 誰でも参加できる。
（×誰も参加できる。）
Yeah, depending on the context, as always.

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English lesson^^


This is more or less the breakdown in connotation:

Everyone/Anyone -- Sophisticated, distant, impersonal, vague (all)
Everybody/Anybody -- Colloquial, intimate, friendly, strong (reinforces counting every individual separately), affirmative


*just fyi

 

[Gracefully]

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English lesson^^
This is more or less the breakdown in connotation:
Everyone/Anyone -- Sophisticated, distant, impersonal, vague (all)
Everybody/Anybody -- Colloquial, intimate, friendly strong (reinforces counting every individual separately), affirmative

I'm confused. Can you use it in a sentence please?

 

[FinancialWar]

I'm confused. Can you use it in a sentence please? :

He's referring to the use in English I think.

せねば is ba form of which verb? 撃破せねばならない。

 

[Ashikaga]

せねば is ba form of which verb? 撃破せねばならない。

せねばならない is a somewhat archaic way of saying しなければならない.

 

[Toritoribe]

So that means 知らない's more polite form is 知りません?

Yes.

せねば is ba form of which verb? 撃破せねばならない。

せ; the imperfective form(the equivalent for pre-nai form in modern Japanese grammar) of the archaic/classical verb す（＝する）
ね; 已然形[izenkei](almost same to conditional form) of the archaic/classical auxiliary verb ず/ぬ（＝ない）

Thus, せねば is the same as しなければ.
You might really need to learn archaic/classical Japanese grammar.

EDIT:
Ooops! ASHIKAGA already answered it.

 

[FinancialWar]

You might really need to learn archaic/classical Japanese grammar.:emoji_blush:

Er.. do I? It's just this one character that likes to use archaic grammar, he thinks he's special because he's an emperor...!:emoji_thinking:

 

[Nick001]

Hi guys could you please help me translating this phrase?
ん
ほっとしたら
あのひとのもとへ行ってたかもしれない
Thanks!

 

[indigozeal]

1. 今読んでる小説で、ある幼い少女はその祖父に庭で摘んだひなぎくをみせています。少女はこの花を「バラ」と呼んで、祖父は「そらおめぇバラじゃねぇ」と返事します。
ここに使われた「そらおめぇ」の意味がちゃんと分かりません。「それはお前」の省略だと思うけど、その場合に文章はあまり意味をなさないそうです。

2. I'm going to have to resort to English for this question. In the same novel, a young man is looking into his late brother's past. His brother never showed the young man any love; the man grew up thinking his brother hated him. For answers to his brother's behavior, the young man goes to his brother's fiancee. She seems surprised at the question. She then hands the man a letter his brother wrote (and never intended for him to see) that she believes contains some answers. She says:

「彼はいつもとても不器用だった。」

No matter where I look, 「不器用」 is always defined as some variation of "clumsy". That doesn't seem to make sense here, though; it seems like a total non sequitir. Does 「不器用」 have some other meaning of which I am unaware - "awkward with people", maybe - or does it refer solely to physical
clumsiness? Is there something I'm missing?

どうぞよろしくお願いします。

 

[Toritoribe]

Er.. do I? It's just this one character that likes to use archaic grammar, he thinks he's special because he's an emperor...!:emoji_thinking:

帰らざる
"帰らざる" - Google 検索
知るよしもあるまい
"知るよしもあるまい" - Google 検索
せねばならない
"せねばならない" - Google 検索

Actually, these words have been still used even by commoners.

1. 今読んでる小説で、ある幼い少女はその祖父に庭で摘んだひなぎくをみせています。少女はこの花を「バラ」と呼んで、祖父は「そらおめぇバラじゃねぇ」と返事します。
ここに使われた「そらおめぇ」の意味がちゃんと分かりません。「それはお前」の省略だと思うけど、その場合に文章はあまり意味をなさないそうです。

お前、それはバラじゃないよ

Does this make sense? (The original has more rude nuance, though.)

2. I'm going to have to resort to English for this question. In the same novel, a young man is looking into his late brother's past. His brother never showed the young man any love; the man grew up thinking his brother hated him. For answers to his brother's behavior, the young man goes to his brother's fiancee. She seems surprised at the question. She then hands the man a letter his brother wrote (and never intended for him to see) that she believes contains some answers. She says:
「彼はいつもとても不器用だった。」
No matter where I look, 「不器用」 is always defined as some variation of "clumsy". That doesn't seem to make sense here, though; it seems like a total non sequitir. Does 「不器用」 have some other meaning of which I am unaware - "awkward with people", maybe - or does it refer solely to physical
clumsiness? Is there something I'm missing?

（自分の感情を素直に表現するのが）不器用: To be not good at to express one's own emotions/feelings frankly
(well-known as a famous actor 高倉健's word 「不器用ですから」:emoji_flushed

 

[indigozeal]

toritoribeさん、説明してくれてどうもありがとうございます!

 

[Elizabeth]

hi guys could you please help me translating this phrase
ん
ほっとしたら
あのひとのもとへ行ってたかもしれない
thanks

Did you mean ひょっとしたら。。。。かもしれない with a typo ?
That really makes perfect sense. (Someone might have gone to that person (less than a 20~% chance).

ほっとしたら。。。 Sorry I don't understand this at all.

 

[neokai]

I see, thank you for clearing that up for me.
So that means 知らない's more polite form is 知りません?

Didn't see anyone reply to this, so I thought I better just reply. 知らない is considered informal, 知りません is the formal form. So yes, in a way you are correct.

Hi guys could you please help me translating this phrase
ん
ほっとしたら
あのひとのもとへ行ってたかもしれない
Thanks!

I believe the correct word is 放って（ほうって）, not ほって。

"If you leave him/her alone (to her own devices), he/she might go back to that person's side."

Sounds like lines from a romance doujin.

 

[Toritoribe]

Hi guys could you please help me translating this phrase
ん
ほっとしたら
あのひとのもとへ行ってたかもしれない
Thanks!

ほっとしたら: if I/someone felt relieved
ひょっとしたら: maybe
ほっといたら: if I left someone alone, if someone left me/someone else alone

These are all possible. Anyway, we need more context. We can't even understand if the subject is the speaker or not just from that.

 

[Elizabeth]

ほっとしたら: if I/someone felt relieved
ひょっとしたら: maybe
ほっといたら: if I left someone alone, if someone left me/someone else alone
These are all possible. Anyway, we need more context. We can't even understand if the subject is the speaker or not just from that.

Just for my own practice, I was considering the two lines as a complete item.

ほっとしたら
あのひとのもとへ行ってたかもしれない

If that is true, does it make sense to talk about yourself in the past ? Or anyone with "relieved."

 

[JoeTheHunter]

What is the difference between me and dai (ordinal numbers). Also I have the same question about kai and do (once, twice, ...).
Thanks.

 

[FinancialWar]

What is the difference between me and dai (ordinal numbers). Also I have the same question about kai and do (once, twice, ...).
Thanks. :

目 is suffix while 第 is prefix.

 

[Nick001]

ほっとしたら: if I/someone felt relieved
ひょっとしたら: maybe
ほっといたら: if I left someone alone, if someone left me/someone else alone
These are all possible. Anyway, we need more context. We can't even understand if the subject is the speaker or not just from that.

It was ひょっとしたら at the beginning sorry
The context is a conversation between boyfriend and girlfriend , the guy being a bit jealous of the girls ex then he asks her , If your ex wanted to come back with you what would you do? ( the ex left her because of a misunderstanding and she suffered a lot) She responds:
ひょっとしたら
あのひとのもとへ行ってたかもしれない

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

It is ひょっとしたら at the beginning sorry
The context is a conversation between boyfriend and girlfriend , the guy being a bit jealous of the girls ex then he asks her , If your ex wanted to come back with you what would you do? She responds:
ひょっとしたら
あのひとのもとへ行ってたかもしれない

I might translate it as:
"Well, maybe I did go back to him."
Probably she's annoyed with her boyfriend and is at this point trying to egg him on.

 

[JoeTheHunter]

What is the difference between me and dai (ordinal numbers). Also I have the same question about kai and do (once, twice, ...).
Thanks.

窶禿 is suffix while 窶佚ｦ is prefix.

Sorry, but I wanted to ask about the usage. So when to use which. Or they are always interchangeable?

 

[Elizabeth]

Sorry, but I wanted to ask about the usage. So when to use which. Or they are always interchangeable?

Dai is more for "large" entities like weeks of the month, rounds of a game or meeting, chapters of a book, business cycles, editions of a title (magazine, etc), articles of a treatise, constitution etc. and other random sets. It also sounds somewhat more formal.

Me depends what it attasshes to -- numbers (ichiban, futatsu...) or other counters..

 

[neokai]

I might translate it as:
"Well, maybe I did go back to him."
Probably she's annoyed with her boyfriend and is at this point trying to egg him on.

I would phrase it more as "Maybe I will go back to him". But yes, the gf is upping the stakes by bringing the EX in the equation. bf either has to call bluff, fold, or raise the stakes.

Sorry, but I wanted to ask about the usage. So when to use which. Or they are always interchangeable?

As for 目 vs 第, I don't think there's any explicit differences in meaning, but some items you use 第 and some you only use 目. 第一世界大戦, 安全第一、第三班, etc all use dai. 一つ目, 亀戸三ちょ目 (hope i got the street name right) are examples of 目. Anyone else got a definitive answer?

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

I would phrase it more as "Maybe I will go back to him". But yes, the gf is upping the stakes by bringing the EX in the equation. bf either has to call bluff, fold, or raise the stakes.

Except that 行ってた is past tense.

 

[neokai]

Except that 行ってた is past tense.

そうだね、私が悪かった。。。So the gf is trying to play coy by neither admitting nor denying the possibility of being within close proximity of her EX?