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やっぱり=>やはり
after all
I checked with the "Genki 1" book and it's written as I entered it (
やっぱり), actually in several places in the book including the dictionary pages of the same book and an example dialog.
Are you sure it's supposed to be
やはり and not
やっぱり ?
Can anyone else confirm this?
Just delet them. We don't say those expressions now except in samurai costume plays now.
ござる
extra-modest expression for ある
-でござる
extra-modest expression for です
Noted. But since my cards are based on the Genki books I think I should really keep them as they are even though some of the translations might not be so good.
おや?=> Don't know which word you want to translate, おや? or Oh!
Oh!
Same problem as above. In my book it does indeed say:
おや? Oh!
I also checked with the dictionary pages. In a sentence in the book where it's used it says:
おや、あめですね。 (Oh, rain.)
... the complete sentence being:
It is a good souvenir. Oh, rain. Do you have an umbrella?
I have no idea why there's a question-mark there. The question mark is present in the "words" section for that chapter as well as the dictionary pages, but not in the sentence. And I've been told that question marks are usually not used in Japanese anyway, so I'm further confused.
Certainly.
さあ=>もちろん or 確かに
I actually wrote "
certainly" as:
かしこまりました which is correct according to my book.
さあ is (in my book and my flash-card entry) translated into "
I am not sure,...", so according to my book I've entered it correctly.
やる
to give (to pets, plants, younger siblings, etc.)=>あげる
そうそう=>そうですね but there are other expressions.
You are right.
I'm sure there are better words/expressions/translations to use (as a newbie I'm personally in no position to say either), but since the exams for us are based on what we're learning from the Genki 1 and 2 books I don't think I should take the liberty to change the words.
My task here is just to make flash-cards out of the words from the books that we're being taught.
If there are actual typos I will of course correct them right away, as I now have, based on your feedback.
Thanks for taking the time to look into this!
Has anyone else found other typos that need to be corrected?
PS: After each correction of the relevant flash-cards I'll also make the same corrections in the Word documents and replace the old ones here. That way several people don't need to alert me about the same typos. See the next message below for the updated Word files.