Need a word or phrase translated?

[selie430]

Please help translate to english.

I have no idea if my spelling is right... or if I heard it right. But if someone could translate this phrase, or even just a part of the phrase, i'd be very thankful.

It's:

Ha sha ba sha shi


Thanks!

Selie

 

[Toritoribe]

I'm afraid, it doesn't make sense at all. In what situation did you hear it?

 

[FinancialWar]

should it be

僕らの生活は希望に満ちていた or 僕らの生活は希望が満ちていた


our lifes are full of hope

 

[Mike Cash]

should it be

僕らの生活は希望に満ちていた or 僕らの生活は希望が満ちていた


our lifes are full of hope

First, that meaning of life is 人生 not 生活

 

[FinancialWar]

First, that meaning of life is 人生 not 生活

Dictionaries seem to beg to differ, 生活 can also mean life or lives.

生活の英語・英訳 - goo辞書 英和和英

生活 - Jisho.org

 

[Mike Cash]

Yes, I know. I could guess you got it from a dictionary. You got the wrong sense of "life".

 

[FinancialWar]

You are correct, I should have used 人生 and the dictionaries are wrong.

Anyways, can you answer my original question?

 

[Elizabeth]

should it be

僕らの生活は希望に満ちていた or 僕らの生活は希望が満ちていた


our lifes are full of hope

に満ちている is correct. が満ちてwould be appropriate to take the object itself that is being represented as swollen or full such as the sun, tide, etc.

 

[Mike Cash]

You are correct, I should have used 人生 and the dictionaries are wrong.

Anyways, can you answer my original question?

Elizabeth covered it.

It's not that the dictionaries are necessarily "wrong" but that a word in one language may have several translations, each used with a distinction that may not be made in the other language.

For "life" I would expect to find at least 人生、生活、命、生命、and maybe ライフ

I once had a hand-me-down romaji English-Japanese dictionary that was absolutely horrible. It had zero example sentences and I remember once going into a shop wanting to buy batteries and using it to look up "battery". There were several different words there.....and no way to tell which referred to an electrical battery, a battery of artillery, or physical assault. I think I asked for the artillery. The shop didn't stock artillery, so I went away empty handed.

It was right about that time that I decided dictionaries would not be a part of my Japanese learning experience or an item I would ever again carry with me for my daily life in Japan.

 

[Toritoribe]

に満ちている is correct. が満ちてwould be appropriate to take the object itself that is being represented as swollen or full such as the sun, tide, etc.

Good explanation. 時/日が満ちる have the same sense, too. 希望が満ちてきた is also correct.

 

[FinancialWar]

に満ちている is correct. が満ちてwould be appropriate to take the object itself that is being represented as swollen or full such as the sun, tide, etc.

Yeah, I got a little confused here as I thought 希望 here is the subject.

 

[selie430]

I'm afraid, it doesn't make sense at all. In what situation did you hear it?

Well, it was a really weird experience. I don't know if you'd believe it, but it was some sort of a paranormal experience. I was about 8 or 9 and i went down to the basement of my grandmother's house in Kamakura and I just heard something whisper in my ear, that phrase. Ha Sha Ba Sha Shi, or at least that's what I think I heard. I'm not japanese so I can't be really be sure.

---------- Post added at 21:14 ---------- Previous post was at 21:10 ----------

So what is the translation?? Sorry I can't follow any characters.

 

[Elizabeth]

I would say 可愛いには可愛いんだけど or 可愛いのは可愛いんだけど for the case. 可愛いと言えば可愛いんだけど is more likely 可愛いと言えなくもない, as I wrote in my previous post.

I'm still a bit confused and couldn't find your previous post but 可愛いと言えなくもない sounds a little like it barely falls in the said category (you could even say she is cute....).... どちらかと言えば可愛いのだがに近い?

 

[Toritoribe]

Well, it was a really weird experience. I don't know if you'd believe it, but it was some sort of a paranormal experience. I was about 8 or 9 and i went down to the basement of my grandmother's house in Kamakura and I just heard something whisper in my ear, that phrase. Ha Sha Ba Sha Shi, or at least that's what I think I heard. I'm not japanese so I can't be really be sure.

Well, then, what you heard from "something" was not Japanese language, probably Fairian, Ghostese or something like that.

I'm still a bit confused and couldn't find your previous post but 可愛いと言えなくもない sounds a little like it barely falls in the said category (you could even say she is cute....).... どちらかと言えば可愛いのだがに近い?

It's rather 見方によっては "depending on a viewpoint" than どちらかといえば.

 

[jamesdr]

I read a manga and there's a word 'gabichon'.

What does it mean ? Is it a humour phrase ? I looked it up on google and it says beauty. Is that correct ?

Thanks

 

[Toritoribe]

Seems like an onomatopoeic or a mimetic word. What's the context?

 

[Reredesu]

Hello, this is my first time coming here, and I'm very confuse about this phrase since I'm not native and my Japanese ability is so-so

Anyway, here it is : 自演って恥ずかしくないんですか？普通に可愛いイラなのに勿体無い。 It was a comment from a guy/girl in my friend's pixiv picture, and she kinds of asks me to help and translate it. Obviously it's quite hard for me...

But anyway, can someone help me? Especially since I can't find 自演 in a dictionary...(haven't tried google translate yet lol). But, does it sounds as if he/she is bad mouthing my friend?
Thanks.

 

[FinancialWar]

自演 self act?

maybe the comment means someone in the picture is only average looking and tries to act shamelessly cool?

 

[Toritoribe]

自演 is from 自作自演, and is often used as "sock-puppet posting" in the web. I don't know the context exactly, but it seems that the poster pointed out your friend's sock-puppeting and asked "Doesn't that embarrass you?"

 

[Rev Ike]

I would like to know how to say the following sentence.

"I'm glad I could help."

My Japanese co-worker asked me for some English assistance. I helped him and he said "Thank you for helping me". I want to respond with "I'm glad I could help". Or something close to that.

Thank you ,

 

[reimoku]

Hi! I would like someone who can read Japanese to please translate what it says at the bottom of this picture. I'll be so grateful, I'm dying of curiousity as to what it says!! I know it says 'mata something ou' but I can't read that kanji. It looks familiar..
Please help! Thank you!

 

[Mike Cash]

Hi! I would like someone who can read Japanese to please translate what it says at the bottom of this picture. I'll be so grateful, I'm dying of curiousity as to what it says!! I know it says 'mata something ou' but I can't read that kanji. It looks familiar..
Please help! Thank you!

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また逢おう (mata aou: let's meet again)

You'd probably recognize it if it had been また会おう instead

 

[Elizabeth]

I would like to know how to say the following sentence.

"I'm glad I could help."

My Japanese co-worker asked me for some English assistance. I helped him and he said "Thank you for helping me". I want to respond with "I'm glad I could help". Or something close to that.

Thank you ,

I think the set phrase "Douitashimashite" is fine to cover "I'm glad I could help you. You're welcome. You're most welcome. You're more than welcome. The pleasure is all mine. I thank you." etc

 

[Mike Cash]

I think the set phrase "Douitashimashite" is fine to cover "I'm glad I could help you. You're welcome. You're most welcome. You're more than welcome. The pleasure is all mine. I thank you." etc

"Yaku ni tatete ureshii desu" is also kinda-sorta a set phrase and means "I'm glad I could be useful", which is practically the same thing.

 

[reimoku]

Thank you so much! And yes, I would've recognized it had it been written the other way. Thanks again.