先生、分からない所があるんで、教えてください！"sense~i, wakaranai tokoro ga arunde, oshiete kudasai!!"
I'm totally clueless 0___0;
jounetsu, did you actually try translating the sentence yourself? If not, perhaps you shouldn't have bothered with "Help Me" in the thread title...
yeah, that was kind of the point I was trying to make...The thread title in itself is too demanding for my tastes. That isn't asking, that's commanding. And it's especially demanding because of the "now!" Am I the only one who found it rude?
PLEASE HELP ME TRANSLATE THIS JUMBLE OF POSSIBLY INCORECT ROUMAJI, ASAP!The thread title in itself is too demanding for my tastes. That isn't asking, that's commanding. And it's especially demanding because of the "now!" Am I the only one who found it rude?
わたしは、ねこにみるくをあげました。is OK. The words are basically in the correct order,I need help with this line. I did it myself but I don't know if the words are in the right order and which word gets the わ for the subject: わたし ねこ みるく さしあげます(I tried to say, "I gave the cat milk"). Yes it is very simply but I just started (trying) to learn Japanese -^_^-
Hi, Elizabeth!わたしは、ねこにみるくをあげました。is OK. The words are basically in the correct order,
just drop the さし, add a past tense and the particles (well, don't worry so much about those for now....^^)...
Yeah, I used to do it correctly too...but then I actually got two cats and was able to notice my tutor has also fallen victim to あげる。。。Hi, Elizabeth!
Long time no read(?)!
The "give" verb in Japanese is a tricky one.
さしあげる means give to someone who ranks significantly higher than you in the social (and biological, meaning man vs. animal) hierarchy, like a teacher/mentor, respected leader, etc.
あげる also means to give to a higher-ranking person or a peer (including friends).
For animals, plants and other living creatures, the correct form is やる .
ねこにみるくをやる。
はなにみずをやる。
I know there are way too many Japanese people who can't tell the difference and disagree with me, saying things like "Ooooh! My pet Neko-chan is part of my family!!", but this is still the correct way (sadly, a shrinking minority today)
I'm an animal/plant lover but still use やる to feed cats and water/give fertilizer to plants...
epigene said:ねこにみるくをやる。
Elizabeth said:Yeah, I used to do it correctly too...but then I actually got two cats and was able to notice my tutor has also fallen victim to あげる。。。
On the other hand, if やる is what I use for my younger sister, well then I suppose I can also reapply it to the cats....They would probably rather I
were in Japan all the time anyway and could have free run of the house with a little privacy...
My understanding was that ミルク is the white stuff you (or cats) drink regardless of where it came (cow, goat, artificial)....it's on the menu of restaurants a lot but not as many store cartons (I don't think)...II thought ぎゅうにゅう was better for milk that you drink, and みるく was more like the cream you put in coffee, or used when combined with some other foreign word.
The thread title in itself is too demanding for my tastes. That isn't asking, that's commanding. And it's especially demanding because of the "now!" Am I the only one who found it rude?
Maybe that's how they do things in the j-pop arena. Honestly, I thought it was meant as a joke from the first. Either that or they didn't want to be late for class.Well the OP resides in Finland so English isn't his/her mother tongue. I'm willing to give people whose first language isn't English the benefit of the doubt.
Yes, ミルク is used these days to point to cow milk (as dairy product for human consumption) at restaurants, etc.My understanding was that ミルク is the white stuff you (or cats) drink regardless of where it came (cow, goat, artificial)....it's on the menu of restaurants a lot but not as many store cartons (I don't think)...
それなら、「カメラ屋」はどんな種類の店でしょうか？Those in katakana = loan words tend to have more specific/narrower meaning than the original, since they usually "imported" with a certain thing/concept.
Those in katakana = loan words tend to have more specific/narrower meaning than the original, since they usually "imported" with a certain thing/concept.
それなら、「カメラ屋」はどんな種類の店でしょうか？
カメラだけを売っているところはなかなか無いでしょうね。
写真屋さんは、現像とともに、スタジオがあって、写真を撮ってくれるところをさすときに使うことばでしょうか。実際、「カメラ屋」「写真屋」はどちらも写真現像をするところとして使えますか。
また、カメラ＝写真ではありませんよね。
はい、声に出して読むとそうなります。これは「カメライコール写真ではありません」と読めばいいんですか。
くわしくその違いを説明してくれてありがとうございます。写真屋はもともとは写真を撮影して、現像してくれるお店です。
大昔はカメラを持っている人は限られていましたが、カメラが一般的になってからは、現像だけも扱うようになったのだと思います。
お店によってはカメラを売っている場合もあります。
最近は撮影はせずにフィルムの現像だけ扱うお店も増えました。これも写真屋といっていいと思います。