Need a word or phrase translated?

[Toritoribe]

最低ね、これだから男の人って。

Spoken by a girl, the translation I am given is something like: "Guys are all like this."

I understand the bits:

= lowest, (like) this, because, men, casual topic marker

But I wouldn't have been able to come up with "Guys are all like this." by myself. Also, だから is always making me trip.


Context:

Girl: 離婚したんですか。

Man: え、いや、あの…

Girl: あなたの浮気が原因？

Man: はい？ (Eh? What...?)

Girl: 最低ね、これだから男の人って。

Another interpretation is that 最低（ね） is used as an interjection "You're disgusting", and the last half of the sentence （これだから男の人って）ダメなのよ, 嫌いなのよ, 信用できないのよ or like that is omitted. The meaning of the sentence is almost the same, though.

 

[turvy]

Thanks Mike and Toritoribe.

Here's something else:

うん、変に気を使われるより、そうやってさくって聞かれるほうがいい。
[It's better to be asked that directly than for others to be too careful around me.]

Can someone provide an explanation for そうやって and さくって, I received one in another forum but it seems the person was more interested in showing off its endless knowledge and insight on Japanese and didn't help that much. I got something like さくって is a more coloquial form of さくっ which is an adverb that means swiftly, smoothly. I also got that it's a super common word used from kids to adults. How do you interpret this word?.

So そうやって means "like that", but there are like 100 words that mean "like that" in Japanese already and I am having trouble to sort them out.

 

[Maru Cheese]

Yo! :haihai:
I have some difficulty to translate a sentence and I need some opinions or corrections about my translated version.
(The text is about a grandmother helping her grandchildren moving in her house)
ダンボールから衣類を取り出して、伸ばし、また畳んでいくおばあさんの背中を見て、いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな、と苦々しく思う。
Taking out the clothes out of the cardboard, seeing our grandmother's back bending and stretching out, made us feel shameful.

There's a part I couldn't translate properly: いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな

宜しくお願いします

 

[Toritoribe]

Thanks Mike and Toritoribe.

Here's something else:

うん、変に気を使われるより、そうやってさくって聞かれるほうがいい。
[It's better to be asked that directly than for others to be too careful around me.]

Can someone provide an explanation for そうやって and さくって, I received one in another forum but it seems the person was more interested in showing off its endless knowledge and insight on Japanese and didn't help that much. I got something like さくって is a more coloquial form of さくっ which is an adverb that means swiftly, smoothly. I also got that it's a super common word used from kids to adults. How do you interpret this word?.

So そうやって means "like that", but there are like 100 words that mean "like that" in Japanese already and I am having trouble to sort them out.

"Directly" and "like that" are good translations. Although さくっ is not so common expression, I believe. It's basically young people's dialect or net/game slang.

Yo! :haihai:
I have some difficulty to translate a sentence and I need some opinions or corrections about my translated version.
(The text is about a grandmother helping her grandchildren moving in her house)
ダンボールから衣類を取り出して、伸ばし、また畳んでいくおばあさんの背中を見て、いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな、と苦々しく思う。
Taking out the clothes out of the cardboard, seeing our grandmother's back bending and stretching out, made us feel shameful.

There's a part I couldn't translate properly: いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな

宜しくお願いします

The clause ダンボールから衣類を取り出して、伸ばし、また畳んでいく modifies おばあさん. 伸ばし、また畳んでいく expresses her actions for clothes, and not the ones of her own body.

やらねば is a classical form of やらなければ.

Are there any typos in 苦々しく?

 

[Maru Cheese]

The clause ダンボールから衣類を取り出して、伸ばし、また畳んでいく modifies おばあさん. 伸ばし、また畳んでいく expresses her actions for clothes, and not the ones of her own body.
やらねば is a classical form of やらなければ.
Are there any typos in 苦々しく?

Thanks for the correction! I hesitated which one between the grandmother and the clothes was the subject.
So basically :"いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな" can be translate into : We must probably be kind to her (since "だろう" means probably)

Are there any typos in 苦々しく?

I checked it and there's no typo : 苦々しく (にがにがしく) is the adverbial form of にがにがしい which means "shameful" or "unpleasant".

 

[Toritoribe]

Thanks for the correction! I hesitated which one between the grandmother and the clothes was the subject.
So basically :"いたわってやらねばいけないんだろうな" can be translate into : We must probably be kind to her (since "だろう" means probably)

Yes, that's right.

I checked it and there's no typo : 苦々しく (にがにがしく) is the adverbial form of にがにがしい which means "shameful" or "unpleasant".

I see. I thought 苦々しく思う "to feel bitter about~" didn't fit the nuance of いたわる. Does the speaker have negative feelings about their grandmother?

 

[Maru Cheese]

Does the speaker have negative feelings about their grandmather?

As far as I read the text, it's just that they (the grandchildren) felt guilty of doing nothing while their old grandmother did all the chores and helped them unpack their belongings.

 

[Shiriu]

Hello.
I have a question concerning the meaning of this sentence :
命を投げるなら、俺は別に、口は出さなかった。
(If you throw away your life, I don't care. ... )
But I don't understand what is meant by the last words.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Jason Wagner]

Translation Help

Hi, I am a US Navy Sailor and a lover of tattoos and all things Japanese. I would like to get a traditional sailing tattoo but, in keeping with my already many Japanese tattoos, I'd like to get my traditional tattoo in Katakana. If anyone could help with the translation I would greatly appreciate it.

In the Navy, it's traditional to wish a sailor well as he/she departs on a voyage with the phrase:

"Fair winds and following seas."

I'm not sure which forms would be the most appropriate for this traditional, though rather informal, phrase. Thank you in advance for any help/suggestions.

Respectfully,

ET3 Wagner, J

 

[sl89]

Hello, I'm not sure how to phrase this in English.

This is all being said by the same person:

いつだってお前は俺より大切なものがあるんだ
When was it that you found someone more important than me?
俺には何もないのに
I don't have anything.
だからああいう場面で他人を引き合いに出せるんだ
So, in that sort of situation I could just quote others.

I'm not sure if my interpretation of the last line is correct, it sounds really awkward to me. Is there a different meaning for 引き合いに出せる?

 

[sl89]

Hello.
I have a question concerning the meaning of this sentence :
命を投げるなら、俺は別に、口は出さなかった。
(If you throw away your life, I don't care. ... )
But I don't understand what is meant by the last words.

Thank you for your help.

Rather than "I don't care" wouldn't it be "I won't say anything"?

 

[Toritoribe]

Hello.
I have a question concerning the meaning of this sentence :
命を投げるなら、俺は別に、口は出さなかった。
(If you throw away your life, I don't care. ... )
But I don't understand what is meant by the last words.
Thank you for your help.

Rather than "I don't care" wouldn't it be "I won't say anything"?

口は出さなかった is the topicalization of 口を出さなかった, which is the negative of an idiom 口を出す "to interfere/stick one's nose into ~", whereas the topicalization of the negative of 口に出す "to say ~" is 口には出さなかった.

Hello, I'm not sure how to phrase this in English.

This is all being said by the same person:

いつだってお前は俺より大切なものがあるんだ
When was it that you found someone more important than me?
俺には何もないのに
I don't have anything.
だからああいう場面で他人を引き合いに出せるんだ
So, in that sort of situation I could just quote others.

I'm not sure if my interpretation of the last line is correct, it sounds really awkward to me. Is there a different meaning for 引き合いに出せる?

いつだってお前は俺より大切なものがあるんだ
You always have something more important than me.

I don't know the context, so the subject of the last sentence is ambiguous to me. Grammatically, it could be either "you" or "I".

 

[sl89]

口は出さなかった is the topicalization of 口を出さなかった, which is the negative of an idiom 口を出す "to interfere/stick one's nose into ~", whereas the topicalization of the negative of 口に出す "to say ~" is 口には出さなかった.

Ah, I see. Thank you for clearing that up for me.

いつだってお前は俺より大切なものがあるんだ
You always have something more important than me.

I don't know the context, so the subject of the last sentence is ambiguous to me. Grammatically, it could be either "you" or "I".

I'm not sure how helpful it is, but this is basically the gist of it:
A-san and B-san had a falling out in their relationship, they are discussing it and trying to come to an understanding. A-san says that he never knew what B-san was thinking and that the fact that B-san met up with someone else was proof that B-san didn't care about A-san. It's after saying that the text in question takes place.

I'm not sure about using the word "quote" for it, since it sounds weird. If I used "refer to" or "consult" would the proper meaning get across? Do you think it'd be more accurate to leave it as "quote"?

 

[Toritoribe]

So, the speaker is A, right? Then, yes, the subject of the sentence is B and 他人を引き合いに出す means "to use others as a reference/benchmark" or like that.

 

[sl89]

So, the speaker is A, right? Then, yes, the subject of the sentence is B and 他人を引き合いに出す means "to use others as a reference/benchmark" or like that.

Wonderful. Thank you for your help!

 

[Shiriu]

口は出さなかった is the topicalization of 口を出さなかった, which is the negative of an idiom 口を出す "to interfere/stick one's nose into ~", whereas the topicalization of the negative of 口に出す "to say ~" is 口には出さなかった.

Thank you for your help ! It became clear now.

 

[Maru Cheese]

I was wondering about the real meaning of the title of this film:" 雨あがる" (After the rain) from Takashi Koizumi.

What is the correct kanji for あがる?
Is it 上がる or 揚がる or none of them?

 

[Toritoribe]

上がる is used.

 

[Maru Cheese]

Thanks Toritoribe!
I checked in my dictionary and "agaru" here means "to stop".

 

[Novak]

Hi people...

Is this the appropriate thread to ask translations? If so, hope someone can translate this (dunno if I'm asking too much but I desperately need a translation as literal as possible, it would be great if you can keep differences between person plural and single person while translating :

Thank you for your help!

 

[Toritoribe]

I checked in my dictionary and "agaru" here means "to stop".

That's right. In this case, it's a classical usage, thus, the present form あがる expresses the perfect tense; 雨があがった in modern Japanese. It's often used also in 俳句 or 和歌.

Hi people...
Is this the appropriate thread to ask translations?

JREF is not a free translation service. This is the LEARNING JAPANESE section.

 

[Mike Cash]

Hi people...
Is this the appropriate thread to ask translations?

The thread title indicates this is for asking for a word or phrase translated....not a whole page out of a Dragon Ball comic book.

What are the circumstances that put you in desperate need of a translation of this? And what did you do to get through pages 1 through 63?

 

[Novak]

The thread title indicates this is for asking for a word or phrase translated....not a whole page out of a Dragon Ball comic book.

I'm sorry. In fact, I wasnt sure you could do that, so I was just literally asking lol
But is there a thread in this forum where is possible to translate?
Or, at least, it's possible to translate only the 6th illustration(or is it 7th? It depends on how you read, however I mean the one on the left in the end of the page)?

What are the circumstances that put you in desperate need of a translation of this? And what did you do to get through pages 1 through 63?

It's a long story xD
And I just need this specific page (or even just one illustration of the page, the one on the left at the end of the page): I've got the manga in Italian, I've expressly searched this page in Japanese because I just need it.
If you can help it would be great. If not, I'll accept that. =)

 

[Jason Wagner]

Eng to Japanese

In the Navy, it's traditional to wish a sailor well as he/she departs on a voyage with the phrase:

"Fair wind and following seas."

I am currently underway (and I have none of the resources I would have at home) or, I would make, at the least, a feeble attempt to translate this on my own with Babel Fish or some other translator but, my access to the internet is severely hampered.

I'm not sure which forms would be the most appropriate for this traditional, though rather informal, phrase. Thank you in advance for any help/suggestions.

Respectfully,

ET3 Wagner, J

 

[Mike Cash]

You said earlier you want it in katakana. Do you mean you want the English phrase....sounding like English (kinda)....but in katakana script? Or did you want a Japanese language equivalent, written in katakana.

(We don't get terribly enthused over helping out with tattoo requests, and if I weren't ex-Navy myself I would totally ignore this one).