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yaminohaka · 11 Mar 2006

I was just wondering if anyone doesn't mind me asking a few questions time to time......

ill start it off with.....
close = soba???
(the meaning of close is like my work hours. example. 8-close how would i put that in 日本語?)

how are you? ikimasu
(a clerk told me this one.)

lets go?
(I use to know this one, but it did rhyme with "Lets go")

doumo arigatou gozaimashita ^^

KrazyKat · 11 Mar 2006

1) simeru, to shut chikai/chikaku as in distance. I don't understand your English.
2) depends on the situation, but its not ikimasu.
3) ikimashou

nice gaijin · 11 Mar 2006

soba is close in a physical sense, it is not a verb. 閉店時間 (heiten jikan) is closing time, 閉店する (heiten suru) is to close up shop. 閉める (shimeru) is also acceptable.

ikimasu is "to go," a clerk would not use this for that purpose. It's more likely they said "irasshaimase"

ikou or ikimashou is "let's go"

and please, put some pupils on your signature, it's bugging me.

yaminohaka · 13 Mar 2006

nice gaijin said:
soba is close in a physical sense, it is not a verb. 閉店時間 (heiten jikan) is closing time, 閉店する (heiten suru) is to close up shop. 閉める (shimeru) is also acceptable.

ikimasu is "to go," a clerk would not use this for that purpose. It's more likely they said "irasshaimase"

ikou or ikimashou is "let's go"

and please, put some pupils on your signature, it's bugging me.

閉店時間, 閉店する, and 閉める. which one would be used in my example.
8-閉店時間
8-閉店する
8-閉める
is there a short version of these words?? something like "閉"?

how are you? or how have you been? or whats up?
(what i meant is, that a clerk taught me how to say "how are you today?" in nihongo.)

whats the word for "maybe"?
example: bob-san: "joe-san! did you hit sara-san?"
joe-san: "maybe."

whats the word for "i don't know"?
example: bob-san: "whats 1+1?
joe-san: "i don't know. watashi ha baka. (hahhaha, did i even used that correctly?)"

what is commonly used in nihon, when someone is mad and yelling out in angry.
haisha (is that equal to the usage in eigo? (english?))
kusogaki
konchikisho
should i give some example of what i liked to be translated?

Mike Cash · 13 Mar 2006

Which "haisha" did you mean?

歯医者
配車
廃車
敗者
拝謝
?

yaminohaka · 14 Mar 2006

i don't know the kanji for it >.<

i'm looking for a name, something to call myself. like a nickname. so i want to put two kanji together and get a name.

cold marrow
or
cold blooded (as in a killer or someone thats mean. not the animal)
forever darkness
endless darkness

KrazyKat · 15 Mar 2006

yaminohaka said:
i don't know the kanji for it >.<
i'm looking for a name, something to call myself. like a nickname. so i want to put two kanji together and get a name.
cold marrow
or
cold blooded (as in a killer or someone that's mean. not the animal)
forever darkness
endless darkness

Cold marrow and endless darkness there aren't actual words, but I guess you could use them for a name. reiketu refers to the animals as well, just like in English.

冷髄
冷血
永闇

yaminohaka · 16 Mar 2006

whats the romaji and kanji for each one???

sword of sun = nihon no katana or katana no nihon
(sun, as in raising sun, or sun as in japan. or nihon)

KrazyKat · 16 Mar 2006

How about 日本刀 nihontou
日本刀 - Wikipedia

However, I know nothing about swords。

yaminohaka · 16 Mar 2006

huh? what am i support to do when i get there? and the site has it's broken or something like that.

yaminohaka:

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Quote:Originally Posted by nice gaijin
soba is close in a physical sense, it is not a verb. 閉店時間 (heiten jikan) is closing time, 閉店する (heiten suru) is to close up shop. 閉める (shimeru) is also acceptable.

ikimasu is "to go," a clerk would not use this for that purpose. It's more likely they said "irasshaimase"

ikou or ikimashou is "let's go"

and please, put some pupils on your signature, it's bugging me.

閉店時間, 閉店する, and 閉める. which one would be used in my example.
8-閉店時間
8-閉店する
8-閉める
is there a short version of these words?? something like "閉"?

how are you? or how have you been? or whats up?
(what i meant is, that a clerk taught me how to say "how are you today?" in nihongo.)

whats the word for "maybe"?
example: bob-san: "joe-san! did you hit sara-san?"
joe-san: "maybe."

whats the word for "i don't know"?
example: bob-san: "whats 1+1?
joe-san: "i don't know. watashi ha baka. (hahhaha, did i even used that correctly?)"

what is commonly used in nihon, when someone is mad and yelling out in angry.
haisha (is that equal to the usage in eigo? (english?))
kusogaki
konchikisho
should i give some example of what i liked to be translated?

Can anyone help me out with these questions???

doinkies · 16 Mar 2006

閉店時間 is "closing time", so an example sentence would be:

The store's closing time is 8:00.
お店の閉店時間は８時です。
O-mise no heiten jikan wa hachi-ji desu.

As for the other words, here's another example:
The store "Doinks R Us" closes at 8:00.
「Doinks R Us」という店は８時に閉店します／閉めます。
"Doinks R Us" to iu mise wa hachi-ji ni heiten shimasu/shimemasu.
You can use either "heiten shimasu" or "shimemasu" in this sentence.

There are no abbreviations of these words, and 閉 is never used on its own but is only used in compound words or at the beginning of verbs relating to closing something, like shimeru, heiten suru, tojiru, etc.

How are you?=お元気ですか？ (Ogenki desu ka?)
the reply is 「はい、元気です。」 (Hai, genki desu.)
「お元気ですか」isn't quite as commonly used as "How are you?" is in English, though.

maybe = たぶん (tabun)、～かもしれない(kamoshirenai; used at the end of sentences)、～かも(kamo, the shorter and more casual form of kamoshirenai)

ボブ：「ジョーさん！サラさんを打ったのか？！？！」
ジョー：「たぶんサラさんを打ったかもしれない．．．」
Bob: "Joe-san! Sara-san o utta no ka?!?!" (utta = past form of utsu, "to hit". Polite form is uchimasu)
Joe: "Tabun Sara-san o utta kamoshirenai..."

I don't know:
わかりません（わからない、わかんない）
wakarimasen (wakaranai, wakannai)
知りません (知らない）
shirimasen (shiranai)
ボブ：「１＋１は？」
ジョー：「わかりません。私はバカだから。」
Bob: "Ichi tasu ichi wa?"
Joe: "Wakarimasen. Watashi wa baka dakara." ("I don't know because I'm stupid", more literally "I don't understand because I'm stupid".)

KrazyKat · 16 Mar 2006

doinkies said:
maybe = たぶん (tabun)、～かもしれない(kamoshirenai; used at the end of sentences)、～かも(kamo, the shorter and more casual form of kamoshirenai)

ボブ：「ジョーさん！サラさんを打ったのか？！？！」
ジョー：「たぶんサラさんを打ったかもしれない．．．」
Bob: "Joe-san! Sara-san o utta no ka?!?!" (utta = past form of utsu, "to hit". Polite form is uchimasu)
Joe: "Tabun Sara-san o utta kamoshirenai..."

Obviously, you are right. But I took yami's sentence as meaning that Joe was being vague over whether or not he hit sara or not, not that he wasn't sure that he did.

For Joe to be vague over his answer, whilst knowing that he did hit sara I would have him say: (and this is only a guess, I'm not sure at all)
さあ、打ったかな
saa, uttakana

Could someone correct this please, I'd like to know too!

The wikipedia just had a picture of the sword for you, and a link to the English language version too.

yaminohaka · 17 Mar 2006

Doumo arigatou doinkies-san. ^^

yaminohaka
sword of sun = nihon no katana or katana no nihon
(sun, as in raising sun, or sun as in japan. or nihon)

yaminohaka
cold marrow
or
cold blooded (as in a killer or someone that's mean. not the animal)
forever darkness
endless darkness

KrazyKat
Cold marrow and endless darkness there aren't actual words, but I guess you could use them for a name. reiketu refers to the animals as well, just like in English.
冷髄
冷血
永闇

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冷髄=cold blooded
冷血=forever darkness
永闇=endless darkness
is that right?

katana of the sun = 刀の日本 or 日本の刀
is that right?

KrazyKat · 18 Mar 2006

yaminohaka said:
doumo arigatou doinkies-san. ^^
冷髄=cold blooded
冷血=forever darkness
永闇=endless darkness
is that right?
katana of the sun = 刀の日本 or 日本の刀
is that right????

1）Cold Marrow
２）Cold Blood
３）Forever Darkness
太陽の刀 Katana of the sun.
日本刀 Japanese Katana。

yaminohaka · 18 Mar 2006

KrazyKat said:
1）Cold Marrow
２）Cold Blood
３）Forever Darkness
太陽の刀 Katana of the sun.
日本刀 Japanese Katana。

could i use those words as names..... like 太陽の刀?? i would really like to use that as a name. is it possible?

KrazyKat · 18 Mar 2006

Neither 太陽の刀 nor 日本刀 could be used as the name of a person or place.

Glenn · 18 Mar 2006

How about 日刀斎?

yaminohaka · 21 Mar 2006

KrazyKat said:
Neither 太陽の刀 nor 日本刀 could be used as the name of a person or place.

Glenn said:
How about 日刀斎?

Krazykat, does 刀 mean sword or katana in nihongo???

Glenn, what does 日刀斎?

doinkies · 21 Mar 2006

刀（かたな） specifically refers to katana, and 剣（けん or つるぎ） refers to other kinds of swords.

Mikawa Ossan · 21 Mar 2006

Have you ever seen "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"? "Green Destiny" is referred to as 碧銘剣 and 剣 in the subtitles.

I'm almost certain that in the Japanese dubbed version of the Taiwanese TV series, it was referred to as a 剣（つるぎ）。

Glenn · 21 Mar 2006

yaminohaka said:
Krazykat, does 刀 mean sword or katana in nihongo???
glenn, what does 日刀斎?

It's a play on 一刀斎 and 抜刀斎, the first being an actual swordsman of the bakumatsu era, I believe, and the second a fictional swordsman of the bakumatsu.

KrazyKat · 21 Mar 2006

I loved Kenshin.

So anyway, what is a yaiba? Is it just another word for turugi?

yaminohaka · 22 Mar 2006

KrazyKat said:
1）Cold Marrow
２）Cold Blood
３）Forever Darkness
太陽の刀 Katana of the sun.
日本刀 Japanese Katana。

whats the roma-ji for 太陽の刀???

and if i was filling out a form what would i put for first and last name?

First Name: 刀
Last Name: 太陽の

is that right?

nice gaijin · 22 Mar 2006

taiyou no katana? That's not even close to being a name... These could only be nicknames at most, try not to think of them as first and last names.

KrazyKat · 22 Mar 2006

yaminohaka said:
whats the roma-ji for 太陽の刀???
and if i was filling out a form what would i put for first and last name?
First Name: 刀
Last Name: 太陽の
is that right??

Neither 太陽の刀 nor 日本刀 could be used as the name of a person.
taiyou no katana is the name of or description of a sword. nihontou is the name of a type of sword.

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