English To Japanese Questions

johnnythao wrote:When speaking how do you connect word's to make it more polite or understandable. :woot:

it's not so much about connecting words...it's about conjugating the verbs properly

i would assume that the last poster dosnt know what conjugating means, so maybe you could rephrase

How would you say "This girl is talking on the phone right now."

Something like the following?

‚±‚ÌŽq‚Í“d˜b‚ð‚µ‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·B

or

‚±‚ÌŽq‚Í“d˜b‚Řb‚µ‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·B

RedRum wrote:How would you say "This girl is talking on the phone right now."

Something like the following?

‚±‚ÌŽq‚Í“d˜b‚ð‚µ‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·B

or

‚±‚ÌŽq‚Í“d˜b‚Řb‚µ‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·B

The second is better, but it would sound more natural as something like:

‚±‚̏—‚ÌŽq‚́A¡“d˜b‚Řb‚µ‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·B

or

‚±‚̏—‚ÌŽq‚́A¡“d˜b’†‚Å‚·B

HTH,

‘‰¤š

Ah yes I forgot the girl and now part :doh:

We're studying h‚µ‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·h in class now so the first one is perfect. But would the second one be "She's on the phone now."?

Thanks for your help. :)

RedRum wrote:Ah yes I forgot the girl and now part :doh:

We're studying h‚µ‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·h in class now so the first one is perfect. But would the second one be "She's on the phone now."?

Thanks for your help. :)

Yeah, basically.
The first one is less common than the second one, but is perfectly fine.

We actually just finished doing V+‚Äform+‚¢‚é in my class (I'm the TA/professor).

HTH,

‘‰¤š

Hihi! As I'll be out doing some survey for my work, I need some urgent help here to translate the following phrases into Japanese pls! Onegaishimasu!

i'll be asking Japanese tourists in Singapore

1.) Is this your first time in Singapore?
2.) How many days do you usually stay here for?
3.) How much do you spend in a visit to Singapore now?
4.) Do you gamble?

I understand a little bit about Japanese sentence structure through reading. But i still confuse about something..

How to say " you do this work hurry"?

Is it "Anata wa hataraki o isoide shimasu" or "Anata wa hataraki o shite isogimasu"?

Then, how to put "must" in this sentence to make it "you must hurry to do this work" in Japanese?

Anou...

How do you say "I miss you" in a casual kind of way? Like when you don't want to sound dramatic or anything :mrgreen: and please type in romaji because I'm having trauble installing the Japanese Language Pack because my aneki lost the cd. :puppydog:

obentou wrote:Anou...

How do you say "I miss you" in a casual kind of way? Like when you don't want to sound dramatic or anything :mrgreen: and please type in romaji because I'm having trauble installing the Japanese Language Pack because my aneki lost the cd. :puppydog:

I would just say something like "aitai ne," which translates roughly to something like, "wouldn't it be nice if we could meet?"

Anyone have any other suggestions?

HTH,

‘‰¤š

IniQx wrote:
1.) Is this your first time in Singapore?
2.) How many days do you usually stay here for?
3.) How much do you spend in a visit to Singapore now?
4.) Do you gamble?

Hi. To say it in simple and polite way.

1) Shingapooru hajimete desuka?
2) Taizai kikan itsumo wa dorekurai desuka?
3) (Shingapooru) Konkai wa donokurai taizai suru yotei desuka?
4) Gyanburu nasaimasuka?

Gambatte :)

alfarez wrote:I understand a little bit about Japanese sentence structure through reading. But i still confuse about something..

How to say " you do this work hurry"?

Is it "Anata wa hataraki o isoide shimasu" or "Anata wa hataraki o shite isogimasu"?

Then, how to put "must" in this sentence to make it "you must hurry to do this work" in Japanese?

Maybe my explanation is not good but I'll try.

Saying "hataraki + shimasu" is not appropriate.
There is a phrase 'hataraki wo shimasu' but it has different meanings.

Anyway, if you want to say "to do work", you have to use the verbal 'hataraku' or in polite way 'hatarakimasu', or the alternative word 'shigoto(work) + shimasu' .

So, "you do work hurry" will be "Anata wa isoide hatarakimasu" or "Isoide anata wa hatarakimasu".
Both of them are fine. It's matter of which do you want to emphasize, Anata or Isoide.

Adding 'must' will be "Anata wa isoide hatarakanakutewa narimasen".
But if you also want to add 'to do 'this' work', you should use the word 'shigoto' + 'shimasu' instead of 'hataraki/ku'.

So, the final answer for the 'you must hurry to do this work' will be "Anata wa kono shigoto wo isoganakutewa narimasen."

'~nakutewa narimasen' means 'must (do)'.

obentou wrote:Anou...

How do you say "I miss you" in a casual kind of way? Like when you don't want to sound dramatic or anything :mrgreen: and please type in romaji because I'm having trauble installing the Japanese Language Pack because my aneki lost the cd. :puppydog:

How about 'aenakute sabishii' (I feel sad that I can't see you).
Still sounds too dramatic?

Shoy wrote:

How about 'aenakute sabishii' (I feel sad that I can't see you).
Still sounds too dramatic?

Thanks, it's good :woot: but isn't it 'samishii?' or am i just hearing things wrong?

And some more things, what's an obocchan? and what does it mean when someone attaches '-cchi' after your name? *well I saw it from an Ouran Koukou episode where they called BossaNova-kun "BossaNova-cchi" :rofl: and I just started wondering what it meant ever since.*

obentou wrote:

Thanks, it's good :woot: but isn't it 'samishii?' or am i just hearing things wrong?

And some more things, what's an obocchan? and what does it mean when someone attaches '-cchi' after your name? *well I saw it from an Ouran Koukou episode where they called BossaNova-kun "BossaNova-cchi" :rofl: and I just started wondering what it meant ever since.*

Yes, you can also use 'samishii'. Samishii and sabishii is the same. Both means 'feel sad'. either of it is fine. there's no particular difference.

Obocchan is a young guy who is from a good rich family, and tends to be gullible, well educated, overprotected and knows nothing of the world.

It's sometimes used as a banter to a rich person.

'-cchi' is something like Billy or Billy-boy to Bill. Hard for me to explain. Maybe other people can explain it better.

Shoy wrote:

Yes, you can also use 'samishii'. Samishii and sabishii is the same. Both means 'feel sad'. either of it is fine. there's no particular difference.

Obocchan is a young guy who is from a good rich family, and tends to be gullible, well educated, overprotected and knows nothing of the world.

It's sometimes used as a banter to a rich person.

'-cchi' is something like Billy or Billy-boy to Bill. Hard for me to explain. Maybe other people can explain it better.

Thanks :woot: I get it now :victory:

How do you say traveler in Japanese? or nomad?

I got some questions I need help with.Pls help!!!Thanks!How do you translate "How much is this apple(per one)?" and "How many brothers do you have?"

The latter question is brothers so "aniki" and "o-nii-san" is wrong.Pls help!!!

h1k1k0m0r1 wrote:How do you say traveler in Japanese? or nomad?

—¬˜QŽÒ [‚é‚낤‚µ‚á] rurousha = nomad.
ã±—· [‚«‚è‚å] kiryo = travel/traveler

Both in the J-Dict: See the Search box above, use the drop-down box to select J-Dict.

ben_galahad wrote:I got some questions I need help with.Pls help!!!Thanks!How do you translate "How much is this apple(per one)?" and "How many brothers do you have?"

The latter question is brothers so "aniki" and "o-nii-san" is wrong.Pls help!!!

"How much is this apple(per one)?" = Kono ringo wa (ikko ni tsuki) ikuradesuka?

"How many brothers do you have?" = Anata wa kyoudai nan-nin imasuka?

kyoudai = sibling