Need a word or phrase translated?

[Toritoribe]

Hey guys been awhile. I'd like to know what 仕事上 means and how its read （しごとじょうかな）.

Right. That's read しごとじょう. :

in work/by requirement of one's work

Edit: Sorry, I also would like the meaning of ためこみがち, seems like its saved up goods or possessions something like that?.

to tend to accumulate things (without throwing them away)

-masu stem of verb/noun + がち: to tend to do/often
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I have a question about two sentences I read in my textbook:

運転前には、次の点をチェックしましょう。
発車する前には、車の前後に人がいないかどうか、車の下に子供がいないかどうか確かめましょう。

Is there some specific reason why "before driving" is written as 運転前 and not 運転する前 like in the second sentence?

They are the same in meaning.

I also have a question about the various ways of saying "acquaintance": 顔見知り、知人、知り合い
Are there any differences between these three?

知人 sounds formal. 顔見知り usually has a nuance of being less close than 知人/知り合い.

and are there any other ways to say "acquaintance"?

顔なじみ, 知己

 

[Jericho Desu]

Thank you Toritoribe

 

[82riceballs]

知人 sounds formal. 顔見知り usually has a nuance of being less close than 知人/知り合い.
顔なじみ, 知己

Thanks toritoribe! Is 顔なじみ roughly the same as 顔見知り？and 知己 the same as知人？

 

[Tictac]

Do you need to translate only those sentences? I mean, do you really understand the rest part of their conversations? If so, I wonder why you can't get such a commonplace phrase like 切ないバラード.☺

Thanks for giving me the whole version, I'd appreciated a lot if you can't give me the whole translation, but that would brother you too much.....that's why I picked some sentences and phrases that I couldn't get it by myself.
Thanks anyway!

 

[Toritoribe]

Thanks toritoribe! Is 顔なじみ roughly the same as 顔見知り？and 知己 the same as知人？

Hmm, just my impression

not-so-close < close
顔見知り＜顔なじみ＜知人/知り合い/知己

知己 is a rather literal expression.

 

[Glenn]

And to my surprise, not read ちこ, but ちき. It makes sense when I think of the Mandarin reading of jǐ. In fact, it makes more sense when I think of it that way than こ does.

 

[Toritoribe]

Actually, I, too, read it ちこ until looking it up in a dictionary. (probably from the reading of 自己)

ちこ seems to be acceptable, though.

「知己」の検索結果 - Yahoo!辞書

 

[nyappykuppo]

Hey can someone please translate this to Japanese ??
"I'll have hope in life again if you tell me something cheering."
please no one laugh xD

 

[epigene]

Actually, I, too, read it ちこ until looking it up in a dictionary.(probably from the reading of 自己)
ちこ seems to be acceptable, though.
「知己」の検索結果 - Yahoo!辞書

I remember my parents using the word ちき and I asked my mom what it meant.

I haven't heard people using it since then.

 

[Elizabeth]

Hmm, just my impression
not-so-close < cloce
顔見知り＜顔なじみ＜知人/知り合い/知己
知己 is a rather literal expression.

(一)面識 is/are another that has some use. Probably from the not so close part of the line.

 

[Toritoribe]

I remember my parents using the word ちき and I asked my mom what it meant.
I haven't heard people using it since then.

Yeah, that's why I wrote "rather literal expression". I, too, have read it only in some books.

(一)面識 is/are another that has some use. Probably from the not so close part of the line.

面識 doesn't express a person itself like 顔見知り/知人/知り合い. It's "acquaintance" as a relationship. 面識のある人 can work, though.

 

[Elizabeth]

Yeah, that's why I wrote "rather literal expression". I, too, have read it only in some books.
面識 doesn't express a person itself like 顔見知り/知人/知り合い. It's "acquaintance" as a relationship. 面識のある人 can work, though.;-)

Oh, I see. Or more awkwardly お近づきになっている人 .

 

[Jericho Desu]

Hi, don't know if this is the right thread for this since its more of a grammatical thing but..

日本人と自転車

私は日本では、自転車に乗ることが好きでした。私の自転車は典型的な日本の自転車で、シートが低く、まっすぐに座るもので、もちろん前にはかごがついていました。こういった自転車は俗語で｢ママチャリ｣と呼ばれています。｢ママ｣はお母さんのこと、｢チャリ｣は自転車の俗語である｢チャリンコ｣を短くしたものです。私は長い間自転車を持っていません。｢ママチャリ｣に乗りなれていたため、マウンテンバイクに乗るのは、ちょっと自信がなかったのです。でも最近、北米でもずいぶんクルーザーバイクを見かけるようになり、また自転車に乗りたいなあという気になってきました。統計によると、日本では１．５人に１人が自転車を所有しているそうです。これは、オランダ、デンマーク、ドイツ、ノルウェー、スウェーデンに続き世界で６番目です。日本のひとりあたりの自転車所有率が中国やフランスより高いのには、少し驚きました。

Can the の I highlighted be replaced by こと? Is の being used here because the connotation is that its more "personal" to the speaker? Is it more to do with the verb being 驚く? Any other info on this will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Elizabeth]

Hi, don't know if this is the right thread for this since its more of a grammatical thing but..
Can the の I highlighted be replaced by こと? Is の being used here because the connotation is that its more "personal" to the speaker? Is it more to do with the verb being 驚く? Any other info on this will be appreciated. Thanks.

In the sense of "surprised that" used here they are interchangeable. の is just hanasukotoba.

If it is no ni as "despite" or "although" you cannot use こと.

 

[82riceballs]

Hey all! Thanks for all the help about "chiki" "kaonajimi" and all the other words about acquaintances

I have a question. If someone recently got a haircut and they say 短く切らなくなった, what does that mean? How is this different from 短く切った?

よろしくお願いします！

 

[Jericho Desu]

In the sense of "surprised that" used here they are interchangeable. の is just hanasukotoba.

If it is no ni as "despite" or "although" you cannot use こと.

Thanks Elizabeth

 

[Elizabeth]

Hey all! Thanks for all the help about "chiki" "kaonajimi" and all the other words about acquaintances

I have a question. If someone recently got a haircut and they say 短く切らなくなった, what does that mean? How is this different from 短く切った?

よろしくお願いします！

短く切らなくなった - It was a situation that they didn't cut it short/it didn't become short.

Something to consider now : How is it different from 短く切らくなくならなかった ?


短く切った? - This is the plain past, no ??

 

[Toritoribe]

短く切らなくなった - It was a situation that they didn't cut it short/it didn't become short.

I second that.

（前は短く切っていたけど、今は）短く切らなくなった
(They used to have thier hair cut short, but now) they don't have thier hair cut short.

Th subject could be the hairdresser.

 

[82riceballs]

Thanks for the help guys! I still kinda don't get it though...
So does 短く切らなくなった mean that the hair grew out after being cut short? or that it just wasn't cut short enough in the first place? i'm so confused -___-''

Also, I have another question:
それまでどうぞ一人でゆっくりしてらしてください
what does らして mean? is it the shortened form of something?

よろしくお願いします！

 

[Half-n-Half]

Thanks for the help guys! I still kinda don't get it though...
So does 短く切らなくなった mean that the hair grew out after being cut short?

No, it just means they ended up not getting it cut short. 切らなく = adverb form of 切らない (not cut) なった = past plain of なる (to become) so, quite literally, "became not cut short."

or that it just wasn't cut short enough in the first place?

I think that would depend on context, although I'm not too sure myself.

 

[undrentide]

Thanks for the help guys! I still kinda don't get it though...
So does 短く切らなくなった mean that the hair grew out after being cut short? or that it just wasn't cut short enough in the first place? i'm so confused -___-''

As Half-n-Half mentioned, 短く切らなくなった simply means that the habits changed about cutting hair, there's no result nor reason for it implied.
As Toritoribe says, someone used to cut the hair short but does not cut it short any more.

Also, I have another question:
それまでどうぞ一人でゆっくりしてらしてください
what does らして mean? is it the shortened form of something?

Yes, らして is contraction for いらして.
いらして is the te-form of いらっしゃる, keigo (polite form) for いる.

 

[Nick001]

Hello, I need help with these lines. It's a dialogue between a mother and a son about the high life and rich people.

son: オレもいっぺんそんな生活してみたいもんだな

mother: そりゃ生まれがちがうから

son: そりゃそう

then they laugh.

I think he's saying he'd like to live that kind of life too but i'm not sure and I don't understand what the mother is saying.
Thank you for your help.

 

[82riceballs]

Thanks for all your help!!

I have another question about 見勝手. How do you pronounce this? みかって？I know that 勝手 means "arbitrary," but how does the 見 change the meaning? I found it in this sentence: 見勝手な行動をとってすまない

よろしくお願いします！

 

[Toritoribe]

Hello, I need help with these lines. It's a dialogue between a mother and a son about the high life and rich people.

son: オレもいっぺんそんな生活してみたいもんだな

mother: そりゃ生まれがちがうから

son: そりゃそう

Then they laugh.

I think he's saying he'd like to live that kind of life too but i'm not sure and I don't understand what the mother is saying.
Thank you for your help.

mother: そりゃ生まれがちがうから
mother: The births/origins are different (between them and us).

son: そりゃそう
son: That's true.

そりゃ is the contraction of それは.

I have another question about 見勝手. How do you pronounce this? みかって？I know that 勝手 means "arbitrary," but how does the 見 change the meaning? I found it in this sentence: 見勝手な行動をとってすまない

Isn't it 身勝手[みがって] or "selfish"?

 

[82riceballs]

Haha thanks! no wonder it wasn't making any sense ><

Also, recently I've been hearing だろうが used at the end of sentences... what does that mean?