gaijinmark wrote: Your welcome, but I usually get it wrong. :ashamed: I speak Japanese almost as well as George Bush speaks english. :bonk: [/list:u]yea what Tu_triky said :mrgreen:
English To Japanese Questions
Started by Kenshin · 11 Oct 2003 · 1,010 replies
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gaijinmark wrote: I would say, "Sono dorama o hajimeru" (I wonder if "saisho" would be better?) :headscratch: [/list:u]oh thankz for ur help and that mean what ?
sadacori wrote:oh so in that case what will u say ?
That's more like "I'm going to begin/start that drama."
To say "That was the first japanese drama I watched" I think it would be "sono drama tte hajimete mita nihon no dorama desu."
Hajimete is doing something for the first time ever. Saisho is just first, as in I got here first. So, "Sore ga saisho ni mita nihon no dorama datta." would translate to That was the first (in a sequence) drama I watched. Also I think datta would have to be desu. You know how in books people write in the past tense for the present, right? I think thats kind of how you can look at the sentence and translate it. I remember watching some video about some group. And one of the kids messed up and said "Sugokatta deshita" when he meant to say "Sugokatta desu."
Hajimete is doing something for the first time ever. Saisho is just first, as in I got here first. So, "Sore ga saisho ni mita nihon no dorama datta." would translate to That was the first (in a sequence) drama I watched. Also I think datta would have to be desu. You know how in books people write in the past tense for the present, right? I think thats kind of how you can look at the sentence and translate it. I remember watching some video about some group. And one of the kids messed up and said "Sugokatta deshita" when he meant to say "Sugokatta desu."
Ai_Teketty_chan wrote:To say "That was the first japanese drama I watched" I think it would be "sono drama tte hajimete mita nihon no dorama desu."
Hajimete is doing something for the first time ever. Saisho is just first, as in I got here first. So, "Sore ga saisho ni mita nihon no dorama datta." would translate to That was the first (in a sequence) drama I watched. Also I think datta would have to be desu. You know how in books people write in the past tense for the present, right? I think thats kind of how you can look at the sentence and translate it. I remember watching some video about some group. And one of the kids messed up and said "Sugokatta deshita" when he meant to say "Sugokatta desu."
Are you sure you only studied Japanese for less than 2 years? :P Great explanation! I guess I wasn't thinking and did a half-assed translation there. :sweat:
lol I make that same mistake ALL the time.
Gomen nasai
^Is that a question? :headscratch:
im ok?
im really like this movie?
im really like this movie?
sassyanne wrote:im ok?"I'm ok" = "daijoubu" - "I really like this movie" = "Eiga wa honto ni tanoshii" [/list:u]
im really like this movie?
Or "Eiga wa daisuki desu"
sassyanne wrote:im ok?
im really like this movie?
I really like this movie = ‚±‚̉f‰æ‚ðD‚«i‚Å‚·j (Kono eiga o suki (desu))
how about
happy Halloween
happy holiday
merry Christmas
happy new year
happy Halloween
happy holiday
merry Christmas
happy new year
sassyanne wrote:how aboutI don't think the Japanese celebrate Halloween, they have Cosplay which is kind of year round Halloween :hehe: "Holiday" can either be j“ú shukujitsu, or ‹x‚Ýyasumi. [/list:u]For Merry Christmas, they say exactly tha‚”, "Merry Christmas" New Year is called ‚¨³ŒŽ oshougatsu.[/list:u]
happy Halloween
happy holiday
merry Christmas
happy new year
Bedi wrote:
I really like this movie = ‚±‚̉f‰æ‚ðD‚«i‚Å‚·j (Kono eiga o suki (desu))
What's the difference between this and : ‚±‚̉f‰æ‚ªD‚«i‚Å‚·j(Kono eiga ga suki (desu)
thx for your answer!
gaijinmark wrote:I don't think the Japanese celebrate Halloween, they have Cosplay which is kind of year round Halloween :hehe: "Holiday" can either be j“ú shukujitsu, or ‹x‚Ýyasumi. [/list:u]For Merry Christmas, they say exactly tha‚”, "Merry Christmas" New Year is called ‚¨³ŒŽ oshougatsu.[/list:u]
domo arigato gozaimasu :)
Tetsu87 wrote:
What's the difference between this and : ‚±‚̉f‰æ‚ªD‚«i‚Å‚·j(Kono eiga ga suki (desu)
thx for your answer!
Well, the difference is that one's wrong and one's right. ;)
‚±‚̉f‰æ‚ªD‚«i‚Å‚·jB is the only correct form of this sentence.
While it's true that D‚« comes from the verb D‚, it's not generally used as a true verb.
gaijinmark wrote:I don't think the Japanese celebrate Halloween, they have Cosplay which is kind of year round Halloween :hehe: "Holiday" can either be j“ú shukujitsu, or ‹x‚Ýyasumi. [/list:u]For Merry Christmas, they say exactly tha‚”, "Merry Christmas" New Year is called ‚¨³ŒŽ oshougatsu.[/list:u]
Exactly. Well, in recent years, Japanese people have begun to actually "celebrate" Halloween in that they have costume parties and some children go trick-or-treating, but it's still very much a foreign concept. Any greetings for these kinds of holidays that are uniquely western will generally be transcribed into katakana (i.e. ƒnƒbƒs[ƒnƒƒEƒBƒ“AƒƒŠ[ƒNƒŠƒXƒ}ƒXAetc.)
They do say "–¾‚¯‚Ü‚µ‚Ä‚¨‚ß‚Å‚Æ‚¤i‚²‚´‚¢‚Ü‚·j" for "Happy New Year," though.
"Happy New Year" when you are still sober = —Ç‚¢‚¨”N‚ð
please kindly translate "Red Sweet Pea" to japanese.. in romaji.. TIA :victory:
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