Need a word or phrase translated?

[Mike Cash]

It all still leaves out the bit about the phrase being something the speaker is wishing for the person he's speaking to, which makes it that much more pointless and nonsensical.

 

[Shiriu]

Hello, I have a quick question :

ここを通らんとするは何者ぞ！
名のらぬ者を通すわけにはいかん
汝の名をなのれ

Is this some kind of old-fashioned Japanese ? It seems very weird.
I think it means something like (after having poured a lot of thoughts into it) :
What kind of person comes by here ?
Those who don't give their names cannot pass.
Give your name.

I found these sentences in the super famicom game 真・女神転生.

Thanks for you help. By the way, is there somewhere on the internet where I can find the equivalent in modern Japanese of some archaic looking phrasings ?
And, is this style of speech used by some people in Japan or in some occasion, or is it just to sound ominous in this context ?

(There are modern texts as well in English that used words like "thou" without caring at all for the mistakes, and as far as I know, apart for some dialect in Great Britain and texts written before the 19th century, these are not used at all in common speech)

 

[dorr123]

Can you please translate the following in English for me!! Thanks!!!
Chikazuiteru tabidachi no toki wakarete yuku sorezore no michi. Kimi wa oshiete kureta donna toki demo waratte yuku koto. Nee moshimo kono sekai de kimi to boku ga deaenakatta nara yume o shinjiru koto o kitto boku wa shiranai mama do itanda.
t C-chan ni aette yokatta! Itsumo, omoshiroi hanashi wo shite kurette, niko niko sareru zo... Kore kara mo, isshoni waraimasho!

 

[Shiriu]

Can you please translate the following in English for me!! Thanks!!!
Chikazuiteru tabidachi no toki wakarete yuku sorezore no michi. Kimi wa oshiete kureta donna toki demo waratte yuku koto. Nee moshimo kono sekai de kimi to boku ga deaenakatta nara yume o shinjiru koto o kitto boku wa shiranai mama do itanda.
t C-chan ni aette yokatta! Itsumo, omoshiroi hanashi wo shite kurette, niko niko sareru zo... Kore kara mo, isshoni waraimasho!

If you could find the text in Japanese, maybe I'll attempt to translate this song. (I suck at understanding Japanese when it is written in romaji; I deem that, for I'm still a learner, I really need the kanji to understand a written text out of context )

 

[dorr123]

No... this is all I got :emoji_frowning2:

If you could find the text in Japanese, maybe I'll attempt to translate this song. (I suck at understanding Japanese when it is written in romaji; I deem that, for I'm still a learner, I really need the kanji to understand a written text out of context )

I finally got a converter ...
ちかずいてるたびだちのときわかれてゆくそれぞれのみち。きみわおしえてくれたどんなときでもわらってゆくこと。ねえもしもこのせかいできみとぼくがであえなかったならゆめおしんじることおきっとぼくわしらないままどいたんだ。

とくーちゃんにあえってよかった!いつも、おもしろいはなしをしてくれって、にこにこされるぞ。。。これからも、いっしょにわらいましょ

 

[Mike Cash]

The thread title specifically mentions "word" and "phrase".....not "humongous block of text".

 

[Shiriu]

I tried translating your text (well, that trains me anyway). I sent it to you by private message.

 

[Toritoribe]

He should have used Niftygate which gives 順風追い波 that may be more precise than my previous attempt. :

And that's the same as my literal translation. The only way would be to use a free translation, as I did in my previous post.

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@ the OP, 順風満帆な航海を can convey the meaning of your phrase correctly but doesn't have a nuance of being a set phrase at all which the original English phrase would have.

Hello, I have a quick question :

ここを通らんとするは何者ぞ！
名のらぬ者を通すわけにはいかん
汝の名をなのれ

Is this some kind of old-fashioned japanese ? It seems very weird.
I think it means something like (after having poured a lot of thoughts into it) :
What kind of person comes by here ?
Those who don't give their names cannot pass.
Give your name.

I found these sentences in the super famicom game 真・女神転生.

Thanks for you help. By the way, is there somewhere on the internet where I can find the equivalent in modern japanese of some archaic looking phrasings ?
And, is this style of speech used by some people in Japan or in some occasion, or is it just to sound ominous in this context ?
(There are modern texts as well in English that used words like "thou" without caring at all for the mistakes, and as far as I know, apart for some dialect in Great Britain and texts written before the 19th century, these are not used at all in common speech)

That's written in Classical or Classical-like Japanese. Here's the equivalent in Modern Japanese.

ここを通ろうとするのは何者だ！
名乗らない者を通すわけにはいかない
（お前の）名を名乗れ

Thus, you did quite well.

No one uses that kind of speech in daily life. Those forms are used to add a kind of atmosphere, e.g. "solmenity", to the sentence.

You need to identify the classical auxiliary verbs like む/ん, ぬ/ん and know their meanings and conjugations, and also need to know about the particle ぞ, the verb conjugations, the nominal clause and so on to interprit those kind of sentences. In conclusion, you need to learn Classical Japanese grammar which is different from the one in Modern Japanese.

Can you please trnslate the following in english for me!! Thanks!!!
Chikazuiteru tabidachi no toki wakarete yuku sorezore no michi. Kimi wa oshiete kureta donna toki demo waratte yuku koto. Nee moshimo kono sekai de kimi to boku ga deaenakatta nara yume o shinjiru koto o kitto boku wa shiranai mama do itanda.
t C-chan ni aette yokatta! Itsumo, omoshiroi hanashi wo shite kurette, niko niko sareru zo... Kore kara mo, isshoni waraimasho!

The first half is a quotation from the lyrics of もしもこの世界で君と僕が出会えなかったら[Moshimo kono sekai de kimi to boku ga deaenakattara] by Sunflower's Garden, which is an ending theme song of an anime "Hunter x Hunter."

近付いている旅立ちの時 別れて行くそれぞれの道
君は教えてくれた どんな時でも笑って行くこと
ねぇもしもこの世界で 君と僕が出会えなかったなら
夢を信じることを きっと僕は知らないままでいたんだ

And the last half is obviously written by a non-native Japanese speaker. It contains many typos and sounds awkward. Is that a message someone sent to you?

 

[Elizabeth]

And that's the same as my literal translation. The only way would be to use a free translation, as I did in my previous post.

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@ the OP, 順風満帆な航海を can convey the meaning of your phrase correctly but doesn't have a nuance of being a set phrase at all which the original English phrase would have.

OK. I was thinking the set phrase for "smooth sailing" would be something like この先が順風満帆でありますように or 順風を受けるように

 

[mariamorievna]

Hello! ^^

I have a problem with the word 程度. I found it used in a following way:

死なせねえさ。
この程度じゃあな。

In other sentences with this word I found it was always placed next to a noun it described, for example "an amount of something" or "a degree of something". How should I translate it in this case, used separately? I'm not sure what it refers to either, I could find nothing in the context that would specify it...
I'll be grateful for some tips.

 

[Mike Cash]

この程度では死なせない

Does putting it back into one sentence in more standard Japanese help?

Unfortunately, this is one of those things where what この程度 means all depends on context, context, context and we don't have the same comic book you do.

"I can't let you die. Not over no more than this."

Or if he's torturing the guy:

"I can't let you die (yet). You haven't suffered enough."

 

[mariamorievna]

この程度では死なせない

Does putting it back into one sentence in more standard Japanese help?

I think it does acctually. Thanks!

Unfortunately, this is one of those things where what この程度 means all depends on context, context, context and we don't have the same comic book you do.

Yes, I realize it, but in this case if I'd like to describe the context, I guess I'd have to summarize the whole book.

Anyway, thank you for help.

 

[seokenji]

Can someone think of expression in Japanese roughly equivalent to "putting a new spin/twist on something"?

Example:

Kurosawa put a unique spin on Shakespeare's classic play "King Lyre".

Thanks!

 

[Rev Ike]

Sentence in Japanese

Thank you for taking the time to help me. This is my first post. I work for a Japanese Manufacturing plant in the US. I have a small base in the Japanese language, but want to become fluent. For this post, I would like to know how to say the following sentence in Japanese:

I just wanted to make sure.

Here's the way I'm using it. My boss is giving a presentation, and I say "excuse me, please. Did you say that our next meeting was on Monday?" And then he answers, and then I say "Thank you. I just wanted to make sure".

Here's the way I think I should say it, but I'm sure I'm not correct:

Watashi ga kakunin shitakatta. (and yes, I understand that in Japansese, saying "I" is not common)

Thanks for your help.

 

[seokenji]

Maybe my instincts are off but I'd add a "んです" at the end for explanatory purposes.
確認したかったんです。

 

[Elizabeth]

Thank you for taking the time to help me. This is my first post. I work for a Japanese Manufacturing plant in the US. I have a small base in the Japanese language, but want to become fluent. For this post, I would like to know how to say the following sentence in Japanese:

I just wanted to make sure.

Here's the way I'm using it. My boss is giving a presentation, and I say "excuse me, please. Did you say that our next meeting was on Monday?" And then he answers, and then I say "Thank you. I just wanted to make sure".

Here's the way I think I should say it, but I'm sure I'm not correct:

Watashi ga kakunin shitakatta. (and yes, I understand that in Japansese, saying "I" is not common)

Thanks for your help.

If you are talking to the boss, I wouldn't use informal Japanese. Maybe "There is something I want to confirm" after (or before) asking: Kakunin shitai koto ga arimasu. I'm also terrible at sounding polite. What is the rest of your sentence?

この程度では死なせない

Does putting it back into one sentence in more standard Japanese help?

Unfortunately, this is one of those things where what この程度 means all depends on context, context, context and we don't have the same comic book you do.

"I can't let you die. Not over no more than this."

Or if he's torturing the guy:

"I can't let you die (yet). You haven't suffered enough."

It depends on the circumstances clearly but I would somehow be more inclined to use a phrase with "can't" over "won't" such as 死なせるなんてできないよ ! for the latter.

Can someone think of expression in Japanese roughly equivalent to "putting a new spin/twist on something"?

Example:

Kurosawa put a unique spin on Shakespeare's classic play "King Lyre".Thanks!

(....King Lear) ni kaishaku (interpretation) wo kuwaeru (added).

 

[deliverance]

Hello there! I'm a new guy in this forum and I'd like to ask for a translation of a phase. I have been reading about Japanese poetry lately, and mainly about Matsuo Basho and I'm currently writing in the style of his travel diaries. I don't have enough knowledge in Japanese to write in that language but I'd like to have at least the title in kanji and romanji. Here is what I have been thinking about as a title. Thanks in advance.

Records of a rain-drenched soul
Records of a windswept soul

 

[Toritoribe]

Thank you for taking the time to help me. This is my first post. I work for a Japanese Manufacturing plant in the US. I have a small base in the Japanese language, but want to become fluent. For this post, I would like to know how to say the following sentence in Japanese:

I just wanted to make sure.

Here's the way I'm using it. My boss is giving a presentation, and I say "excuse me, please. Did you say that our next meeting was on Monday?" And then he answers, and then I say "Thank you. I just wanted to make sure".

Here's the way I think I should say it, but I'm sure I'm not correct:

Watashi ga kakunin shitakatta. (and yes, I understand that in Japansese, saying "I" is not common)

Thanks for your help.

I would say ありがとうございます。念のため確認しておきたかったものですから。[Arigatougozaimasu. Nen no tame kakuninshiteokitakatta mono desu kara.] for "Thank you. I just wanted to make sure".

To say "watashi ga" is not just uncommon, but unnecessarily emphasizes "I". "Watashi ga kakunin shitakatta" is an answer to a question "Who is the one who wanted to confirm it?"

Hello there! I'm a new guy in this forum and I'd like to ask for a translation of a phase. I have been reading about Japanese poetry lately, and mainly about Matsuo Basho and I'm currently writing in the style of his travel diaries. I don't have enough knowledge in Japanese to write in that language but I'd like to have at least the title in kanji and romaji. Here is what I have been thinking about as a title. Thanks in advance.

Records of a rain-drenched soul
Records of a windswept soul

雨ざらしの魂の記録
Amazarashi no tamashii no kiroku

吹きさらしの魂の記録
Fukisarashi no tamashii no kiroku

FYI, that's romaji and not romanji.

 

[Elizabeth]

I would say ありがとうございます。念のため確認しておきたかったものですから。[Arigatougozaimasu. Nen no tame kakuninshiteokitakatta mono desu kara.] for "Thank you. I just wanted to make sure".
To say "watashi ga" is not just uncommon, but unnecessarily emphasizes "I". "Watashi ga kakunin shitakatta" is an answer to a question "Who is the one who wanted to confirm it?"

"Nen no tame ni otazune shimasuga...." I was thinking afterwards also might be easier ("Just to make certain I have this right...") if the OP could rework the question to lead off with a ready made expression of this sort rather than tagging it at the end.

 

[Mike Cash]

"Nen no tame ni otazune shimasuga...." I was thinking afterwards also might be easier ("Just to make certain I have this right...") if the OP could rework the question to lead off with a ready made expression of this sort rather than tagging it at the end.

The only thing that is necessary is ありがとうございます; everything else is superfluous.

 

[Elizabeth]

The only thing that is necessary is ありがとうございます; everything else is superfluous.

Internal communication on meetings is probably through email anyway but it is still good to know repeat confirmation for
other easy to confuse details.

 

[Watermelon]

Hello!

I have a couple of questions regarding words that I know in contexts where I have not seen them before.

1. 「優しくてかっこいいって最強だよね！」I'm assuming 最強 in this context doesn't mean "strongest", so maybe it's more along the lines of... "maximum"? So something like "He's the kindest and the coolest!" perhaps? I'm just making a wild guess, so please correct me if I'm completely off base.

2. 「可愛いと言えば可愛いのだが」The context is a person trying to decide how to describe something, so the preceding statement is 「何と言うか」if that helps. I understand Aと言えば as "speaking of A..." and in the context of どちらかと言えば , but I am confused about と言えば in this context, with the same word before and after it.

If someone would be willing to help me better understand these phrases, I would be very grateful!

 

[Toritoribe]

1)
最強 is more likely "excellent/perfect" in this usage. It's from a nuance of "invincible".

It's excellent that he is kind and furthermore cool.

2)
～と言えば～んだが/だけど is close to ～と言えなくもないけど.

I could say that something/someone is cute, but...

 

[Elizabeth]

1.何と言うか
可愛いと言えば可愛いのだが

I think it has the connotation of an image coming in on the lovely side that also happens to be married with a slight fault which makes it more attractive than どちらかと言えば可愛いのだが but still less than perfect.

 

[Mike Cash]

I think you meant "marred".

It is more like: "Yeah, if you say she's cute, you're right; she's cute....(but she's still a b!tch)" or some other such contravening opinion in the parentheses.

It is a way of conceding your interlocutor's point while still not giving up your own.