Need a word or phrase translated?

[Toritoribe]

I would say （それを）なんと呼ばせたいですか？

 

[Rei Yahya]

I would say （それを）なんと呼ばせたいですか？

Ah, thank you. If you do not mind me asking, what about yobaseru as opposed to yobareru makes it better for asking what an object would be called?

 

[Toritoribe]

Another expression for "What do you want it to be called?" is それをなんと呼んでほしいですか？


You can use ～をなんて/なんと呼ばれたいですか？ only when the object is the addressee's possessions. (This is a kind of indirect passive; what's called 持主受身 "the possesser's passive".)
e.g.
飼い犬をなんと呼ばれたいですか？

～を（･･･と）呼ばれたい can't be used for the object that is nothing to do with the subject, whereas ～を（･･･と）呼んでほしい/呼ばせたい can be used relatively freely.

 

[Rei Yahya]

Another expression for "What do you want it to be called?" is それをなんと呼んでほしいですか？


You can use ～をなんて/なんと呼ばれたいですか？ only when the object is the addressee's possessions. (This is a kind of indirect passive; what's called 持主受身 "the possesser's passive".)
e.g.
飼い犬をなんと呼ばれたいですか？

～を（･･･と）呼ばれたい can't be used for the object that is nothing to do with the subject, whereas ～を（･･･と）呼んでほしい/呼ばせたい can be used relatively freely.

Thank you very much for all your helpful and well thought out explanations.

 

[eltel]

Japanese index card WW2

Hi my name is Terry and would like it very much if someone on this site could translate my uncle's pow index card.
I know little about the man, so this would help fill in a few years of his life.
Thank you for any help

 

[Toritoribe]

昭和18年4月28日 ボルネオ 移民ノタメ昭南 出身

比ノ銘銘票ハボルネオ俘虜収容所ヨリ報告サルベキ資料ガ
昭和二十年四月以後當局ニ届イテヰナイ為完全ナル補修ガ出来テヰナイ

昭和18年9月30日 発病
昭和19年10月16日 午前7時20分 マラリアニテ死亡 （JA133、P、79）
死亡場所 ボルネオ ミリー州 前田島
屍体処理 火葬 北ボルネオ ミリー州 前田島収容所墓地ニ埋葬


Showa juuhachinen shigatu nijuuhachinichi Boruneo imin no tame Shonan shusshin

Kono meimeihyou wa Boruneo furyo shuuyoujo yori houkoku saru beki shiryou ga
Showa nijuunen shigatu igo toukyoku ni todoiteinai tame kanzen naru hoshuu ga dekiteinai

Showa juuhachinen kugatsu sanjuunichi hatsubyou
Showa juukunen juugatsu juurokunichi gozen shichiji nijuppun mararia nite shibou (JA133,P,79)
Shibou basho Boruneo Miri shuu Maedatou
Shitai shori kasou kita Boruneo Miri shuu Maedatou shuuyoujo bochi ni maisou


28the April 1943, Borneo, from Singapore because of an immigrant

This card can't be completely edited because the data that should be reported from Borneo POW Camp didn't reach the authorities since April, 1945.

Got sick on 30th September 1943
Died of malaria at 7:20 a.m. 16th October 1943 (JA133,P,79)
The location of the death: Maeda Island(= Labuan Island), Miri, Borneo
The treatment of the dead: burial at Maeda Island POW Camp cemetery after cremation

Hope this helps

 

[eltel]

Thank you Toritoribe

Your translation has helped me and my family, looks like a trip to Borneo at some point.

 

[Elizabeth]

Another expression for "What do you want it to be called?" is それをなんと呼んでほしいですか？


You can use ～をなんて/なんと呼ばれたいですか？ only when the object is the addressee's possessions. (This is a kind of indirect passive; what's called 持主受身 "the possesser's passive".)
e.g.
飼い犬をなんと呼ばれたいですか？

～を（･･･と）呼ばれたい can't be used for the object that is nothing to do with the subject, whereas ～を（･･･と）呼んでほしい/呼ばせたい can be used relatively freely.

Oh, then that becomes my long-standing error also for assuming something like (みんなに)何て呼ばれている？was acceptable in extremely casual situations, along with 「どう (or なんて) 呼んだらいい？」 etc.

 

[Toritoribe]

呼ばれたい and 呼ばれている are completely different, aren't they?

 

[sl89]

Does anyone here know what 地雷CP is?

This is the sentence I saw it in: 地雷CP無い人向けです。
I'm fairly certain that it has something to do with computers, but I don't know anything about computers either, so I can't really make any solid guesses as to what it could be referring to.

 

[Toritoribe]

CP seems like an abbreviation of "coupling", meaning "pairing of characters".

カップリング (同人) - Wikipedia
(all in Japanese)

I guess 地雷CP is "a pair of characters a reader can't accept", thus, 地雷CP無い人向けですwould mean "This is for readers who can accept any kind of pair of characters." Does this fit the context?

 

[sl89]

CP seems to mean coupling; "making characters a couple".

カップリング (同人) - Wikipedia
(all in Japanese)

I guess 地雷CP means "a couple (of characters) a reader can't accept." Does this fit the context?

Oh...I was way off base...that makes complete sense.
Thank you so much!

Do you happen to know of any websites that explain acronyms like CP? I see them a lot, but never find much in terms of useful explanations when I try looking them up. Is the Japanese Wikipedia the best place to go for that sort of thing?

 

[Elizabeth]

呼ばれたい and 呼ばれている are completely different, aren't they?

They are indeed. It must be the jet lag since I still don't see a problem with 恋人に/孫に/私に etc なんて呼ばれたいですas the person being addressed is able to properly respond with ~~ と/名前で呼ばれたい when referencing their own name.

 

[Toritoribe]

Do you happen to know of any websites that explain acronyms like CP? I see them a lot, but never find much in terms of useful explanations when I try looking them up. Is the Japanese wikipedia the best place to go for that sort of thing?

Probably wikipedia is not the place. I just googled the word and read some pages with expecting there to be a hint.

They are indeed. It must be the jet lag since I still don't see a problem with 恋人に/孫に/私に etc なんて呼ばれたいですas the person being addressed is able to properly respond with ~~ と/名前で呼ばれたい when referencing their own name.

I never say there's a problem in （自分を）なんて呼ばれたいですか. I said that "You can use ～をなんて/なんと呼ばれたいですか？ only when the object is the addressee's possessions" and "～を（･･･と）呼ばれたい can't be used for the object that is nothing to do with the subject". Thus, you can say neither 僕の犬をなんて呼ばれたいですか nor オランド大統領をフランソワと呼ばれたい. On the other hand, オランド大統領を（親しみを込めて）フランソワと呼んでほしい/呼ばせたい can make sense in a context.

 

[Elizabeth]

Probably wikipedia is not the place. I just googled the word and read some pages with expecting there to be a hint.



I never say there's a problem in （自分を）なんて呼ばれたいですか. I said that "You can use ～をなんて/なんと呼ばれたいですか？ only when the object is the addressee's possessions" and "～を（･･･と）呼ばれたい can't be used for the object that is nothing to do with the subject". Thus, you can say neither 僕の犬をなんて呼ばれたいですか nor オランド大統領をフランソワと呼ばれたい. On the other hand, オランド大統領を（親しみを込めて）フランソワと呼んでほしい/呼ばせたい can make sense in a context.

Oh, yes basically I misread the OP's follow up but the distinction follows in the same way in English between what do you want to be called and the answer to what I want/what "should" it/him/her to be called. 呼んでほしい/呼ばせたい/呼んでね etc is preferred when the term under consideration is in common use or to what has been decided on by the speaker in particular for the self, others or objects. (呼び方が決まっているのなら)

 

[Shiriu]

Hello.
I realized that とき is frequently written in hiragana and not in kanji 時.
I wonder why because this kanji is quite simple (and this word is used a lot).
It seems to me that とき is more frequently written when just after a verb (as in : 新しい家を買うときは、よく調べてから買いましょう。)
Maybe it is nothing but an impression of mine, but I still wanted to ask.
Thank you.

 

[Akazukin]

Hello everyone,

I've been searching for the correct translation of 'fairy tale', as in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. So far I've found three possible translations. I'd like to know what the difference between these three words is and which is used to refer to tales such as Little Red Cap.
Could you also tell me if there's a Japanese equivalent of these fairy tales (and which word is used)? Thank you. ^^

童話 どうわ
昔話 むかしばなし
御伽噺 おとぎばなし

@Shirui: I could be wrong, but I think it's because in those sentences its purpose is pure grammar and not really about the meaning (time) of とき.

 

[Elizabeth]

I would go with どうわ for the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. おとぎばなし fits a more typical genre of European fairy tales with kings, castles, princesses and むかしばなし is generally reserved for traditional Japanese stories from the past grouped under "folk tales" - fables, legends, sagas etc (although modifiable with "Western" (Yousei) in some instances). Sorry if it is brief but this has been gone over rather thoroughly here in the past so a search of this site with a particular title translation in mind might be more productive .

 

[Toritoribe]

Oh, yes basically I misread the OP's follow up but the distinction follows in the same way in English between what do you want to be called and the answer to what I want/what "should" it/him/her to be called. 呼んでほしい/呼ばせたい/呼んでね etc is preferred when the term under consideration is in common use or to what has been decided on by the speaker in particular for the self, others or objects. (呼び方が決まっているのなら)

I think you'd better to read the OP's post more carefully. The original sentence is それで、なんて呼ばれたいですか？ なんて呼ばれたいですか has a different nuance from なんて呼んでほしいですか, therefore the author chose this saying whether it is less common or not. Don't you think so?

Hello.
I realized that とき is frequently written in hiragana and not in kanji 時.
I wonder why because this kanji is quite simple (and this word is used a lot).
It seems to me that とき is more frequently written when just after a verb (as in : 新しい家を買うときは、よく調べてから買いましょう。)
Maybe it is nothing but an impression of mine, but I still wanted to ask.
Thank you.

As Akazukin-san(chan?) explained correctly, hiragana is preffered when used in subordinate clauses, meaning when, while, and so on.

 

[Akazukin]

I would go with どうわ for the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. おとぎばなし fits a more typical genre of European fairy tales with kings, castles, princesses and むかしばなし is generally reserved for traditional Japanese stories from the past grouped under "folk tales" - fables, legends, sagas etc (although modifiable with "Western" (Yousei) in some instances). Sorry if it is brief but this has been gone over rather thoroughly here in the past so a search of this site with a particular title translation in mind might be more productive .

ありがとうございます。
I was really breaking my head over おとぎばなし. So just for the record, it can also be a Japanese tale (with princesses, castles etc.), right?

As Akazukin-san(chan?) explained correctly, hiragana is preffered when used in subordinate clauses, meaning when, while, and so on.

Akazukin-chan sounds good ^^

 

[mariamorievna]

Hi

I have another problem. ^^'

俺も長くないな...

What could possibly the sentence mean?
It's a fragment from a manga and the context would be a little hard to describe, since not much is happening in the scene and the sentence itself is an inner thought. But of course if you wish, I can try to describe the situation.

 

[Mike Cash]

It could mean several things. Describe the situation.

 

[mariamorievna]

It could mean several things. Describe the situation.

OK I'll try.

As I said the scene is rather static, because the charcter just sits and thinks. ^^
He's a fugitive, ligthly injured, taking shelter in a shed, he seems quite desperate too.
It's been raining the whole night, in the scene we see a shot of the rain still falling outside. In the next panel the charcter says to himself:

...やまなきゃ
いいなんて

And on the next one:

俺も長くないな...

And that's the end of the scene. I hope that helps. If not, I'll be grateful for just examples of possible meanings of that sentence. Does it refer to the time aspect?

 

[Toritoribe]

So just for the record, it can also be a Japanese tale (with princesses, castles etc.), right?

Right.

OK I'll try.

As I said the scene is rather static, because the charcter just sits and thinks. ^^
He's a fugitive, ligthly injured, taking shelter in a shed, he seems quite desperate too.
It's been raining the whole night, in the scene we see a shot of the rain still falling outside. In the next panel the charcter says to himself:

...やまなきゃ
いいなんて

And on the next one:

俺も長くないな...

And that's the end of the scene. I hope that helps. If not, I'll be grateful for just examples of possible meanings of that sentence. Does it refer to the time aspect?

Yes, that's right. That's 俺の寿命も長くないな "I have little time left to live."

 

[jamesdr]

Hi, im new here. Can anyone translate to Japanese 'It's hard to explain' ?

Thanks