Need a word or phrase translated?

[Toritoribe]

I see. Luckily, の is used here.

The fish is swimming in the water.
魚が水の中で泳いでいる。

You can see the fish swimming clearly in the water.
魚が水の中で泳いでいるのがよく見える。

Your way of translating 泳ぐ魚/泳いでいる魚 can also work.

You can see the swimming fish clearly in the water.
水の中で泳いでいる魚がよく見える。

 

[mrvonungarn]

Oh thank you very much!
I'll try to complete the translation and to do it as well as possible
Arigatou!!

 

[I Am A Baka]

This weekend I'm going to see an anime movie. I'm really excited. Here's the trailer:



I was watching it and noticed some Japanese signs that intrigued:

I'm fairly sure the first one says "合場所" but what does it mean? I'm also fairly certain her face is covering the other half. Any guess to what the full phrase might be?

As for the second one, I'm guessing it says "ようこぞ汐島へ" which is something like "Welcome to Shiojima" Could anyone tell me if I'm correct? The official site for this movie says " 「汐島(しおじま)」" on one of the pages.

 

[mrvonungarn]

The last one is "welcome to Shiojima".

 

[undrentide]

I'm fairly sure the first one says "合場所" but what does it mean? I'm also fairly certain her face is covering the other half. Any guess to what the full phrase might be?

As for the second one, I'm guessing it says "ようこぞ汐島へ" which is something like "Welcome to Shiojima" Could anyone tell me if I'm correct? The official site for this movie says " 「汐島(しおじま)」" on one of the pages.

I think it should read 乗合場所（のりあいばしょ）, with the first letter hidden behind the girl.
It means boarding place (for bus, boat, etc.)

As for the second one, yes, your understanding is correct.

 

[Yakultcat]

Please can someone help with this translation?

そして、もう、一人の男も、少しかおの色がわるくなりました。
Background is two guys are walking in a forest and some weird stuff is happening, one of them has already turned pale. Therefore I think this translates as:

Then, soon, the [other] man's face also, a little, became a bad colour.

Is that correct? I'm a really unsure about 'mou' as I've only ever used it as 'already'. Also, is the subject in this sentence '一人の男'?

 

[Toritoribe]

I'm fairly sure the first one says "合場所" but what does it mean? I'm also fairly certain her face is covering the other half. Any guess to what the full phrase might be?

My guess was 集合場所 shūgō basho "meeting place", but after reading undrentide-san's post, 乗合場所 would be the correct one.

As for the second one, I'm guessing it says "ようこぞ汐島へ" which is something like "Welcome to Shiojima" Could anyone tell me if I'm correct? The official site for this movie says " 「汐島(しおじま)」" on one of the pages.

Yes, except ようこぞ. ようこそ is corret.;-)

Please can someone help with this translation?
そして、もう、一人の男も、少しかおの色がわるくなりました。
Background is two guys are walking in a forest and some weird stuff is happening, one of them has already turned pale. Therefore I think this translates as:
Then, soon, the [other] man's face also, a little, became a bad colour.
Is that correct? I'm a really unsure about 'mou' as I've only ever used it as 'already'. Also, is the subject in this sentence '一人の男'?

もう modifies 一人.
もう一人の男: the other man

And yes for the subject.

 

[Bubble Nebula]

Hello! : )
Could someone maybe help me by translating the following question?

話変わりますが日本人がドイツ語を勉強して日本で活かせることって何かご存じですか？

I'm somehow having trouble translating the bold parts in this context.
Thank you in advance!

 

[Glenn]

The fish is swimming in the water.
魚が水の中で泳いでいる。

You can see the fish swimming clearly in the water.
魚が水の中で泳いでいるのがよく見える。

Your way of translating 泳ぐ魚/泳いでいる魚 can also work.

You can see the swimming fish clearly in the water.
水の中で泳いでいる魚がよく見える。

When I first saw the sentence as it was written ("You can see the fish swimming in the clear water," I believe it was), my translation was その澄んだ水で泳いでいる魚が見られる. That's saying something different from what 水の中で泳いでいる魚がよく見える is, I suppose with the main differences being "clear water" vs. "clearly see" and "can be seen easily" vs. "can look at". It's hard to put the difference between 見える and 見られる in English...

話変わりますが日本人がドイツ語を勉強して日本で活かせることって何かご存じですか？

Do you have an attempt? I can tell you that the first one is pretty much a set expression.

 

[Toritoribe]

I suppose with the main differences being "clear water" vs. "clearly see"

Yeah, I, too, pointed it out and got the answer.:

 

[Glenn]

Yeah, I didn't totally understand the answer part of that.

 

[Mike Cash]

Oh thank you very much!
I'll try to complete the translation and to do it as well as possible
Arigatou!!

In one post you ask about "see the fish swimming" and elsewhere you talk about "see the swimming fish".

Those are two different things.

Before one attempts translation it is vital to be clear about what is being said in the original.

 

[Elizabeth]

When I first saw the sentence as it was written ("You can see the fish swimming in the clear water," I believe it was), my translation was その澄んだ水で泳いでいる魚が見られる. That's saying something different from what 水の中で泳いでいる魚がよく見える is, I suppose with the main differences being "clear water" vs. "clearly see" and "can be seen easily" vs. "can look at". It's hard to put the difference between 見える and 見られる in English...

透明な might be appropriate for clear, but I don't know for sure. I'm not even completely confident of the distinction between 水中で and 水中を in this context.

 

[I Am A Baka]

Can anyone tell me what kanji this is? It's really bugging me because I've looked everywhere, but I can't find a definition. Maybe I'm counting the strokes wrong...

 

[nekojita]

選 as in 選手・選ぶ etc.

The "road" enclosure is three strokes, as is each of the 己 on the top; maybe one of those is where you had the problem.

 

[I Am A Baka]

Ahh! Thanks so much! Yeah, I was counting the strokes for 己 wrong. Thanks again!!

 

[Mediocre Jedi]

Hi, people! I'm completely ignorant in japanese and do not know any native or japanese-speaking folks, so I'm asking on the internet). There is a line in Hagakure, that goes "There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment." How would it be written in japanese? I know there are several ways of writing (kanji, kana) - what way was it supposed to be written in original? What is the difference in writing horizontally or vertically (you write horizontally on the forum for example)? Some of my questions may seem to be stupid. And they probably are).

 

[Toritoribe]

In Modern Japanese
端的只今の一念より外はこれなく候
Tanteki tada ima no ichinen yori hoka wa kore naku sōrō.

Original (Classical) text
端的只今之一念より外ハ之無く候

And you can see the original text in the following picture. Japanese was originally written vertically.

 

[Mediocre Jedi]

Thanks a lot, Toritoribe, for such an informative answer! Especially for the picture. It is exactly what I needed. But characters on the paper look quite a bit different from the ones typed. Is it because they are handwritten or because they are relatively old? And can the line be split in several parts? If I were to make an inscription on an object, could I split it in four parallel lines?

 

[Toritoribe]

It's because that's handwritten one, furthermore, Cursive and Semi-cursive form are partly used. Hagakure was never published in Edo period . It was copied by hand. It's known that there are about 40 versions of variation, and the one I quoted is called 小城本(Ogi bon ), which was collected in the library of Ogi Domain.

To split into three lines 端的只今之 / 一念より外ハ / 之無く候 is semantically most common, but if you want it to be four lines, 端的 / 只今之 / 一念より外ハ / 之無く候 would be the best.

 

[Mediocre Jedi]

Can the handwritten one on the picture above be split, or is it too intervined? If so, could you possibly mark the split lines? And if you write it in several lines, then the top part would be on the left and the botom part on the right, yes? I'm sorry if I bug you with all this questions - I just want to get this one right.

 

[Toritoribe]

From right to left is correct for vertical writings.

The following link is the original picture with no lines, which is from the Ogi Nabeshima Collection at Saga University. I hope this is somewhat helpful for your purpose.

佐賀大学附属図書館 貴重書デジタルアーカイブ｜佐賀大学附属図書館 貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

 

[Mediocre Jedi]

Thank you very much, Toritoribe! Your posts were of great help. I hope I didn't bother you too much.
By the way, this short thick horizontal lines in the text, do they mark sentences? Is there a need for them, if there is only one sentence?

 

[Toritoribe]

That's a kanji for "one", and used to show the start of a paragraph here. You don't need to add it.

 

[Mediocre Jedi]

I see. Now, this question may be somewhat strange: If this handwritten cursive line in old grammar was a part of a drawing, which also included two words written in modern kanji, would it seem grotesque and out of place due to the difference in styles?