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A little Japanese translation help

PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:43 am
by Towi Wakka
Alrighty, when you're on an anime forum you are bound to run in to many people who can speak or write Japanese ^_^. I need a little help with 2 words in Hirigana (not to pronounce but the written letters). Can someone attemt to translate "Lunar" (or moon if thats easier) and "Gentle". Thanks a ton everyone!

PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:07 am
by ShiroiHikari
Moon => Tsuki => つき、月

Gentle => Yasashii => やさしい

Is that what you wanted?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:49 pm
by Towi Wakka
Thank You! :thumb:

PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:51 pm
by ShiroiHikari
Oh, cool. You're welcome.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:20 am
by TwilightKissC3
Otaku = Somebody who's obsessed with Anime and Manga

AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:10 am
by Mithrandir
Ug. There's quite a few problems with that list, acutally... But I'm not going into them all. Just for example, though, Watashi may be formal, but it's still a contraction. It's watakushi if you want to be formal. And "urusai" translates better as "noisy." It's not a verb!

*walks away before getting annoyed*

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:11 pm
by shooraijin
Also, just glancing at it, "iku ze" would be rather rude in most contexts (something like, "c'mon, I'm going, you (jerk/slowpoke/dummy)!" It doesn't really mean "Let's go" except in the challenging-someone sense. If you really mean to say "let's go (somewhere)", you'll never offend anyone with something like 'ikimashoo ka?'

Days of the week should end in "yoobi".

There are several ways to count, and while your list is correct for the Chinese numbers, there is a set of Japanese numbers from 1-10 which is used very frequently also.

Please be careful with these kinds of lists, especially with a language like Japanese where you can really be offensive to people if you're uncertain of how to speak correctly and use the wrong form (moreover, this list doesn't really explain those kinds of distinctions).

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:49 am
by NeoMikey
...egads, Tenshi...do you just like spreading that list around or something...? :sweat:

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:25 am
by Zilch
...(twitches trying to read all the scary Japanese words)