Hey guys, I've been practicing my Japanese lately (it being summer and all, so I have a lot more free time on my hands). I have found a relatively easily to understand manga called Yotsuba, so I've started to translate it, for practice. I've run into a few issues along the way though. Can someone please explain the following for me:
1)What does いいか mean? For example, as used in this sentence: いいかよつばしらないひとについていっちゃだめだよ。 My best so far is いいか meaning "good thing" but I'm not sure. I get the general idea of the sentence though. Basically, Yotsuba is wondering why she is going with a stranger she does not anything about.
2) How comes lots of normal Japanese words are written in katakana instead of hiragana in manga? It's not like words that are loanwords in Japanese. I mean natural Japanese words, like: eg. だめ -> ダメ?
3)Can someone please explain なんで and なんでも? Especially なんでも, I think I understand that なんで is a colloquial way of saying why (as opposed to なぜ）. なんでも confuses me though.
4)What does ぶってくれ mean? I kept on seeing it earlier in the manga, and I figured out that it meant "wave" (as in greeting with the hand), but it was driving me mad because I couldn't find it in Denshi Jisho.
5)What about using くん and くんな in place of くれ? From my understanding, it seems like slang. Can anyone give me any general idea of the differences in usage among these three terms?
6) I see people using the kanji 手 to refer to themselves (I think) in sentences. Are they using it to refer to themselves? Is this some slang way of doing it? Some example sentences of it being used this way are:
とーちゃん手が話せないからな俺の分もよつばがぶってくれ。
and
手がぶるえる。
and
どっから手をつけるかな。
Thanks a lot for fighting through and reading this long post, even if you don't know the answers. Thanks in advance for those who know the answers too. ^_^
1)What does いいか mean? For example, as used in this sentence: いいかよつばしらないひとについていっちゃだめだよ。 My best so far is いいか meaning "good thing" but I'm not sure. I get the general idea of the sentence though. Basically, Yotsuba is wondering why she is going with a stranger she does not anything about.
2) How comes lots of normal Japanese words are written in katakana instead of hiragana in manga? It's not like words that are loanwords in Japanese. I mean natural Japanese words, like: eg. だめ -> ダメ?
3)Can someone please explain なんで and なんでも? Especially なんでも, I think I understand that なんで is a colloquial way of saying why (as opposed to なぜ）. なんでも confuses me though.
4)What does ぶってくれ mean? I kept on seeing it earlier in the manga, and I figured out that it meant "wave" (as in greeting with the hand), but it was driving me mad because I couldn't find it in Denshi Jisho.
5)What about using くん and くんな in place of くれ? From my understanding, it seems like slang. Can anyone give me any general idea of the differences in usage among these three terms?
6) I see people using the kanji 手 to refer to themselves (I think) in sentences. Are they using it to refer to themselves? Is this some slang way of doing it? Some example sentences of it being used this way are:
とーちゃん手が話せないからな俺の分もよつばがぶってくれ。
and
手がぶるえる。
and
どっから手をつけるかな。
Thanks a lot for fighting through and reading this long post, even if you don't know the answers. Thanks in advance for those who know the answers too. ^_^