It's kind of a long story, but I have a girlfriend who constantly speaks Japanese and while I love the language/culture, it gets kind of annoying because I don't know a lot of Japanese. Anyway, we were in an argument and she left on these words: omae ga omoshiroi hito wa. I don't know what they mean and it'd be a big help if someone could tell me. Domo in advance.
Need translation, please?
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Lina Inverse
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omae = colloquial form of "you", normally only used by menGrunk said:
omoshiroi = interesting
hito = human, person
You [nominative] interesting person [subject]
In colloquial speech, it's not seldom that stuff is omitted, such as e.g. the "desu" here.
Lina Inverse
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The phrase ends with wa because the desu is omitted.Elizabeth said:
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An Angry Woman Having A Fight....
it should be easy enough to guess at filling in the blanks!
Frank
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it should be easy enough to guess at filling in the blanks!
Frank
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Glenn
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Well, copula omission commonly occurs in women's informal speech, and "wa" is a sentence final particle in women's speech similar to "ze" and "zo" of men's speech, so I think that it would be safe to say that this "wa" is the sentence final "wa," and that the copula is omitted. Rephrased, "omae ga omoshiroi hito da yo."
However, the original sentence just seems weird to me. Why would a woman use "omae" and "wa" together like that? It doesn't seem to follow collocational norms. Another thing is that she must have really wanted to say that you are the interesting one, otherwise why would she have used "ga?" I guess I can't say much because I don't really know the situation, but it seems that "wa" (topic marker) should have been used there.
However, the original sentence just seems weird to me. Why would a woman use "omae" and "wa" together like that? It doesn't seem to follow collocational norms. Another thing is that she must have really wanted to say that you are the interesting one, otherwise why would she have used "ga?" I guess I can't say much because I don't really know the situation, but it seems that "wa" (topic marker) should have been used there.
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orochi
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She said omae because she was angry. He said they were in a fight. She put wa at the end because she's a girl; they do that in Japanese. If I were to translate that based on the context, I would put it at something like: "You are a really strange guy, you know." She was possibly referring to his inability to understand her feelings. That's what I get from what she said, though I can't say more without more context.
This brings up a good point... omoshiroi isn't always positive.
This brings up a good point... omoshiroi isn't always positive.
dreamer
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So there's several meaning to omoshiroi?I thought it means interresting or strange in a positive way, when something's pleasant, like tanoshii...
Anyway it's sure that "you're an interresting person" sounds weird in an argument...
Edit : https://jref.com/language/japanese_words_multiple_english_translations.shtml
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