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Mother stays awake until every member of the family has come home.
Need a word or phrase translated?
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Mother stays awake until every member of the family has come home.
how would you translate this? (two speed bubbles from a manga)
first bubble is this: また割つちゃつた
second bubble is this : 今月コレで三枚目
(context: someone who broke a teacup saying this)
doesn't seem to make sense
今月 = this month
コレ = kore in katakana (it's from a manga, thus the katakana)
三枚目 = fool? not quite sure
thanks in advance
first bubble is this: また割つちゃつた
second bubble is this : 今月コレで三枚目
(context: someone who broke a teacup saying this)
doesn't seem to make sense
今月 = this month
コレ = kore in katakana (it's from a manga, thus the katakana)
三枚目 = fool? not quite sure
thanks in advance
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That's the third one this month
目 is an ordinal suffix (like first, second, third)
枚 is a "counter" suffix for a wide variety of objects which are distinguished by their flatness.
また割つちゃつた should be:
なた割っちゃった
Notice the smaller size of the っ versus the regular つ. This is a significant point and one to be careful about.
The first literally says "Another one broke" (using an intransitive verb". In English we would be more likely to translate it as"I broke another one" (transitive verb).
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I believe that the speaker is referring to a teacup saucer, not a teacup, since 枚 is a counter for thin flat objects such like plates.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/枚#Counter
Mike-san, 割っちゃった is transitive, and 割れちゃった is intransitive.
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I'm believe that the speaker is referring to a teacup saucer, not a teacup, since 枚 is a counter for thin flat objects such like plates.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/枚#Counter
Mike-san, 割っちゃった is transitive, and 割れちゃった is intransitive.
I should have known that, because one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed in Japanese interaction was based on a misunderstanding between酒を割った and 酒終わった.
Thank you. 気をつけます
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I'm reading a manga right now about thaiboxing, and one guy is constantly attacking the other with middle kicks to which the commentator says after a while:
サーマートのミドルが面白いように当たっている！！
サーマート is the character's name, but I have no idea what the author means with 面白いように当たっている.
Thanks in advance.
サーマートのミドルが面白いように当たっている！！
サーマート is the character's name, but I have no idea what the author means with 面白いように当たっている.
Thanks in advance.
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Your battery is low on fluid.
Battery? could it be water for the window washer?. Thanks for the reply.
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If it had meant water for the window washer I would have said water for the window washer.
It says your battery is low on fluid.
Check your battery.
Here:
バッテリー液不足
Copy-paste that into Google Translate if you don't want to take my word for it.
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WonkoTheSane
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I bet the washer fluid is low too, just check all your fluids while you're under the hood.
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That makes a lot of sense, thanks nekojita!
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What do you mean by "the simpler ones"? You don't need to translate the right column?
Hi, thank you for the quick reply! Indeed, I'd like to know what both columns mean, I just meant that I was able to identify the simpler kanji, like 三 and 田, but I can't identify the others. I've just started learning, so I probably wouldn't be able to make much sense out of them even if I identified them anyway, so actually ignore my first post. Could you please translate the text in that image in English?
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大和魂
Yamato damashii
Japanese spirit
養神館塩田剛三
Yōshinkan Shioda Gōzō
Yoshinkan - Wikipedia
Gozo Shioda - Wikipedia
Yamato damashii
Japanese spirit
養神館塩田剛三
Yōshinkan Shioda Gōzō
Yoshinkan - Wikipedia
Gozo Shioda - Wikipedia
I wouldn't have definitely been able to translate it even if I knew the characters. Thank you a lot, have a nice day.
Hello there folks.
I'd like to get some confirmation that I'm reading the following lines correctly.
For context, these are said by two men to the villain, who's helped them in order to get their trust and then turned on both:
心ある者なら誰でもお前のやった事は許さない！ - I'm reading this as "Anyone with a heart would call what you've done unforgivable".
そうやって理屈で誤魔化すのは悪人の証拠だ！ - Main issue on this one is the bold part. Related to it, it should be noted that this line follows an incredibly vague explanation from the villain as to why what he did was "right".
I'm reading this as "Only a bona fide bad guy would give someone the runaround like that!" but is there a better interpretation of 理屈で誤魔化す?
Thanks for the insight.
I'd like to get some confirmation that I'm reading the following lines correctly.
For context, these are said by two men to the villain, who's helped them in order to get their trust and then turned on both:
心ある者なら誰でもお前のやった事は許さない！ - I'm reading this as "Anyone with a heart would call what you've done unforgivable".
そうやって理屈で誤魔化すのは悪人の証拠だ！ - Main issue on this one is the bold part. Related to it, it should be noted that this line follows an incredibly vague explanation from the villain as to why what he did was "right".
I'm reading this as "Only a bona fide bad guy would give someone the runaround like that!" but is there a better interpretation of 理屈で誤魔化す?
Thanks for the insight.
