What is らしきもの?

[derick78b]

Hey guys, could help me out?

I'm translating a text right now and I saw this word(s): らしきもの.

I really don't know what it is. I've searched it and I couldn't find a really good meaning for it...


Thank you very much.

 

[Toritoribe]

らしき is another adnominal/attributive form of an i-adjective らしい, which sounds a bit classical than らしい.

 

[derick78b]

Could you please explain this to me?

血痕らしきものが見つかった。
That's the sentence.

 

[Toritoribe]

血痕らしいものが見つかった。/血痕のようなものが見つかった。

Does this make sense?

 

[derick78b]

Thank you very much.

But that's exactly the もの that I don't understand.

Sorry.

Could you please help me with もの?

thank you once more.

 

[Toritoribe]

1 〔物体〕a thing; 〔品物〕an article
このての物は品切れです
Articles of this kind are out of stock.
物が不足してきた
Goods are running short.
この世界を造っている物
the matter which constitutes this world
何か黒い物が水に浮かんでいる
Something black is floating on the water.

もの - goo辞書

［１］【物体,物品】a thing;（漠然ともの）stuff;（しろもの）話 an affair（※通例を伴う）;（物体）an object;（物品）an article;（物質）substance;（材料）(a) material;（何かあるもの）something（※否定文・疑問 文では通例anything）;（すべてのもの）everything;（ どれでも）anything;（何も...ない）nothing.

それは蛇のようなものでした
It was something like a snake.

もの - Yahoo!辞書

 

[derick78b]

Thank you very much, Toritoribe!


So the right "meaning" of the sentence is:

血痕らしきものが見つかった。= Things like bloodstains were found.


Right?


Thank you once more.

 

[Andromedashun]

Passive tense is not right here and the subject seems to be the third person, not ''things''.

 

[Toritoribe]

Thank you very much, Toritoribe!


So the right "meaning" of the sentence is:

血痕らしきものが見つかった。= Things like bloodstains were found.


Right?


Thank you once more.

Yes. "Something like bloodstains" might be better.

 

[Glenn]

Passive tense is not right here and the subject seems to be the third person, not ''things''.

Eh, it's tricky, because there's not an English version of 見つかる. It's intransitive, and the closest you can make "find" to intransitive is passive, so passive is normally used when translating it (although it can be active sometimes too, like ボタンはまだ見つからない？ could be "have you found the button yet?").