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a-nesuto wrote:

i believe it means powder snow •²á

thx a-nesuto......

please help translate:

for example i'm gonna say...in english "i am a college graduate" in japanese is it? "watashi wa daigakusotsu-sei desu" or "watashi wa daigakuin-sei desu"
or "watashi wa daigakusotsu desu" (that's w/out sei) sei is for student right?

and plus to complete a sentence for ex. "i am a college graduate of (degree)" or "i graduated college from (name of school)"

thanks for anyone who will reply!

lucy_monostone wrote:please help translate:

for example i'm gonna say...in english "i am a college graduate" in japanese is it? "watashi wa daigakusotsu-sei desu" or "watashi wa daigakuin-sei desu"
or "watashi wa daigakusotsu desu" (that's w/out sei) sei is for student right?

and plus to complete a sentence for ex. "i am a college graduate of (degree)" or "i graduated college from (name of school)"

thanks for anyone who will reply!

Hey.

Ž„‚́A‘²‹Æ¶‚Å‚·B (watashi wa, sotsugyou-sei desu.)
"I am a college (university) graduate."

That is for if you've finished school and no longer attend. If you are a graduate student working on your Master's or Ph.D. then you would say,

Ž„‚́A‘åŠw‰@¶‚Å‚·B (watashi wa, daigakuin-sei desu.)

And here is the translation you asked for:

`‘åŠw‚𑲋Ƃµ‚Ü‚µ‚½B ( [name of univeristy] daigaku wo sotugyou shimashita.)
"I graduated from [name of university]."

HTH,

‘‰¤š

ganmo wrote:I asked this in the Japanese to English thread but I'm hoping someone will be able to help me here since I didn't get a response there.

Does anyone know what a Birigen-san is?

Thanks!

I did see your question in the other thread, but have no idea what the answer is.

So, someone here must know what a Birigen-san is?

I really need to know what it is now too! :fingerscrossed:

Can anyone help me with this?

I am fond of trying Japanese confectionery.
I've had some sweets (candy) that have been strawberry-flavoured.

I notice that the word I think means strawberry - ichigo - is always written in hiragana as ‚¢‚¿‚²B

But, isn't there a kanji for strawberry? I wouldn't have thought it was always written in hiragana.

kokuou wrote:

Hey.

Ž„‚́A‘²‹Æ¶‚Å‚·B (watashi wa, sotsugyou-sei desu.)
"I am a college (university) graduate."

That is for if you've finished school and no longer attend. If you are a graduate student working on your Master's or Ph.D. then you would say,

Ž„‚́A‘åŠw‰@¶‚Å‚·B (watashi wa, daigakuin-sei desu.)

And here is the translation you asked for:

`‘åŠw‚𑲋Ƃµ‚Ü‚µ‚½B ( [name of univeristy] daigaku wo sotugyou shimashita.)
"I graduated from [name of university]."

HTH,

‘‰¤š

waah! domo arigatou! you help me a lot!

oh u put some kanjis in it...to bad i can't read kanjis...

:banghead: damn i really need to start studying in japanese language school so that i can interact and be more proficient...maybe next year..this year is just too late.. :shamefulcry:

thanks again kokuou!

ganmo wrote:I asked this in the Japanese to English thread but I'm hoping someone will be able to help me here since I didn't get a response there.

Does anyone know what a Birigen-san is?

Thanks!

Maybe, the name of the doll of lucky god in Tsuuten-kaku( old Osaka tower ) from US at first stage of 20th century who appeared in the dream of US artist...
Or kinda nickname of the person whoes head is like that doll....

if you have more information, ...

Keps wrote:Can anyone help me with this?

I am fond of trying Japanese confectionery.
I've had some sweets (candy) that have been strawberry-flavoured.

I notice that the word I think means strawberry - ichigo - is always written in hiragana as ‚¢‚¿‚²B

But, isn't there a kanji for strawberry? I wouldn't have thought it was always written in hiragana.

There is a kanji for ichigo= ä•
I guess they write it in hiragana to make it more hip? I'm not sure how to explain it...

suave_yamapi wrote:

There is a kanji for ichigo= ä•
I guess they write it in hiragana to make it more hip? I'm not sure how to explain it...

Thank you for your response, suave yamapi!

The confectionery packets I have seen ‚¢‚¿‚²@on, I think have been aimed at young people and kids, so you might be right about the "hip" thing (always gotta be cool for kids, right?)

Let's see ä• Yay! I just found the kanji on my Japanese keyboard.

snowmackerel wrote:

Maybe, the name of the doll of lucky god in Tsuuten-kaku( old Osaka tower ) from US at first stage of 20th century who appeared in the dream of US artist...
Or kinda nickname of the person whoes head is like that doll....

if you have more information, ...

Yeah... I can't even find a single page in yahoo or google with the kana... :confused:

Keps wrote:

Thank you for your response, suave yamapi!

The confectionery packets I have seen ‚¢‚¿‚²@on, I think have been aimed at young people and kids, so you might be right about the "hip" thing (always gotta be cool for kids, right?)

Let's see ä• Yay! I just found the kanji on my Japanese keyboard.

It's not really that.

I've actually seen ä• on packages and whatnot, but after studying kanji for a little while, you come to realize that there are those words which you will ALWAYS see in kanji (unless you're reading a children's book), those you will ALWAYS see in hiragana, and then there are some which you will see written in both.

Even that middle section has its characters that lean towards being written more frequently in either hiragana or kanji.

Ichigo is one that, I think, leans more towards hiragana (or katakana), but is still somewhere just off the center.

HTH,

‘‰¤š

tabana wrote:
Yeah... I can't even find a single page in yahoo or google with the kana... :confused:

I use the speclation on the assumption that questioner is interested in
Japanese Pop culture.
(Osaka has also the background of deep subculture in own way.)

Then my conclusion is that even japanese who doesnt have
enough knowledge of subculture in Osaka sometime use Birigen-san as
Biriken-san as misspelling.Actually I find that misspell online in Japanese websites.

Then I used Biriken-san(ƒrƒŠƒPƒ“‚³‚ñ)/Biriken(ƒrƒŠƒPƒ“) and use gogle. / In English, Billiken.
There, I found Biriken-san in the lyrics of the song by the group belonged to Kansai Johnny's Jimusho. The name of the group is Kanjani-eight(ŠÖƒWƒƒƒj‡). I dont have the knowledge of them, but they seemed to play with KAT-TUN.
Title of song is OOsaka-Obachan-Rock(‡SAKA‚¨‚΂¿‚á‚ñROCK), maybe in this case ‡=oo.

if this speculation is correct,
1. keyword is ƒrƒŠƒPƒ“‚³‚ñ
2.This is the official site of Tsuutenkaku( Osaka tower )
http://www.tsutenkaku.co.jp/index.html
And this is the page of Briken-san doll in that page.
http://www.tsutenkaku.co.jp/hiroba/hiroba.html
3.Next site is also available
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiken
4.Past days, the nickname of the person whose head is like this doll may exist.

I have another assumption.
But that is based on that Birigen is misspell of Biriken.
The next name of the group is Biriken(ƒrƒŠƒPƒ“)
http://www.sol-blade.co.jp/billyken/billyken.htm
But this name doesnt comes from the name of doll.
Usually in Japanese language, the sound of r is substituted by the sound of l.
And also, Japanese use 4 syllabic sounds word for the abbreviation of long word.
The name of this group comes from 2 syllabic sounds of the name of one person, and 2 also from another person.l

kokuou - eeks, it seems you are right; I tried inputting ichigo into the Japanese Wikipedia, and it brought up a page headed with the word in katakana ƒCƒ`ƒSB

The kanji is listed, but underneath that main header.

Thanks for helping me out. :say_thanx:

kokuou wrote:

It's not really that.

I've actually seen ä• on packages and whatnot, but after studying kanji for a little while, you come to realize that there are those words which you will ALWAYS see in kanji (unless you're reading a children's book), those you will ALWAYS see in hiragana, and then there are some which you will see written in both.

Even that middle section has its characters that lean towards being written more frequently in either hiragana or kanji.

Ichigo is one that, I think, leans more towards hiragana (or katakana), but is still somewhere just off the center.

HTH,

‘‰¤š

I see, thanks for the explanation :victory: My explanation was just a guess from a Japanese language newbie :sweat:

Eek! I need help on some clothing lessons. Im doing a report of Visual Kei and I need to include some vocabulary words for some of the clothing but how can I do that? :banghead:

snowmackerel wrote:I use the speclation on the assumption that questioner is interested in
Japanese Pop culture.
(Osaka has also the background of deep subculture in own way.)...

Nice find, snowmackerel. :applaud:

I actually have a biriken album from 2003. They have this "mascot" on their albums and singles and it looks a bit like the statue. That must be it. :thumbsup:

Ok, I'm nearly through GTO.
On it, I notice that the females seem to say "atashi" and not "Watashi".

Is this me just not hearing the "w", or are they actually not saying it?

It's really puzzling me. :headscratch:

Keps wrote:Ok, I'm nearly through GTO.
On it, I notice that the females seem to say "atashi" and not "Watashi".

Is this me just not hearing the "w", or are they actually not saying it?

It's really puzzling me. :headscratch:

nope, it's not just you.
atashi is the female version of watashi though women can also use watashi:

women: atashi, watashi
men: ore, boku, watashi

if this is too vague, you'd better ask the omniscient kokuou :mrgreen: :victory:

suave_yamapi wrote:

nope, it's not just you.
atashi is the female version of watashi though women can also use watashi:

women: atashi, watashi
men: ore, boku, watashi

if this is too vague, you'd better ask the omniscient kokuou :mrgreen: :victory:

So it's not just my ears deceiving me! It seems that every female in GTO says "atashi" for I.

I hadn't heard the word "ore" before - rather, I just haven't noticed, probably.

Thanks so much for the useful info. :dancing:

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