Started this thread for anyone who has requests or needs support writing certain words or lines with the proper grammar in Japanese...
I made up a sentence with the help of an online dictionairy "Kuro-Joutei korosu tomo ada.".
Now my question is if this sentence is grammaticly correct, or anyone has a better structure of words I could use? Basically what I'm trying to write is "The Dark-Lord kills all enemies.". Anyone?
Last edited by Killa-Eyez; Fri, 06-29-2007 at 09:37 PM.
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My japanese is very limited, but i would translate it as , "kuro-kou koroshi wa subete no teki"
It's probably horribly wrong though.
Hehe, I really can't tell if it's wrong or right, if the words all together form a good sentence... Don't know anything about Romaji and its grammar.
I did look it up with the dictionary and a couple of words I can't place... Like Kou and Wa and No... Maybe if you'd explain to me???
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you used the word for a god kind of lord, -kou is a suffix for a lord or leader or whatever.
Well, since you proffered such a thread (and since it's fresh)...Originally Posted by Killa-Eyez
To appease my inner fanboy, of sorts, I need to ask, falling short of asking a person knowledgeable in japanese and the like, is there some source out there I can use to teach myself the PRONUNCIATION of kanji characters, specifically?
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And as for the "The Dark Lord kills all his enemies," I wouldn't use -kou. Sure, it can be used as a suffix, but it's not exactly common not elegant, and it's more of a duke of prince of sorts.... I'd simply use "Ou," king, soverign or Lord.
Now, Dark.... Yeah, literally, it'd be "Kuro," but that's more of a color and not a quality. How about Darkness? Kura-yami?
暗闇の王は全ての敵を殺すのだ。
Kurayami no Ou wa subete no teki wo korosu no da.
"The Lord of Darkness kills all his enemies."
Chose the "no da" ending 'cause its masculine and somewhat elegant....
i forgot all about Ou, yeah thats pretty much perfect.
I'd just say "go buy a dictionary" because, like Chinese, it probably involves a lot of memorization. I know that there are some native Japanese speakers who even have trouble remembering Kanji, which is why Kanji characters are also listed with small Hirigana and Katakana next to them, to make sure everyone is able to read them.
I think learning pronunciations of Kanji would be infinitely more difficult as a side project than, say, learning to read Hirigana or Katakana first.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html
Maybe it's a bogus dictionary but I looked up a couple of words...
Really can't seem to find the same meaning of words you're implying...
But about mine sentence? Was in a somewhat good direction? Or was I totally off here? Have absolutely no clue...
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Sorry, but your original sentence was mainly a lot of WTF.
Here's what you wrote, right? "Kuro-Joutei korosu tomo ada"
I would translate that as "The black lord from heaven gift kills the attendants in disservice."
Or maybe "The black gift sternly kills all, impossible."
"Joutei" is not a fm exactly used everyday, in fact I had to go to a Japanese encyclopedia to discover what the hell it was. As for "Kuro", I said it before - it related more to the color black than to the idea of darkness.
"Tomo," used as a suffixs, means "many" or "together", but not all. And "ada" means "disservie" or something along those lines.
Moral of the story: don't use online dictionaries, they suck and are unabe to respect grammar.
'Kay, lesson learned.
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Til å være eller ikke til å være. ..that er spørsmålet. - Tilfeldig Sitat Fanatiker
Well, someone sent me this message a while back, and while I am pretty sure it is in either Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish I have been unable to find out what it means. Help?
To be, or not to be: that is the question - Random quote, fanatic
It's Norwegian.
Strange, I wonder why it was sent to me then. I have no idea who it was. Damn Facebook and it's honesty box application >.<. Thanks so much for your help though! =)
As best as the online translators can mangle it, I'm almost positive it's a quote from Hamlet. Thanks for the fun diversion.
To be or not to be, that is the question. - Accidental Citation Addict
Though, maybe you prefer this version:
"At to be or no matter at to be. that am prompt. Accidental Citation Addict"
yes, it's Hamlet... I mean, that's probably the most well-known line of Shakespeare ever...
also, merged this thread with another, so bring all your translation worries here.
Yesterday I became very annoyed because I found one of the major differences between Spanish and Italian. Although alot of it is similar, one thing is annoyingly different, how you structure questions...
In English, you can say:
"Is the table wide?" Or (at least in conversation) "The table is wide?"
I mean, people use the latter form alll the time, with intonation making the only difference between a statement and question...
but we also have modifiers like 'Do' or 'Can' that are often used to help make a question:
"Do you know that vacation starts tomorrow?'
And, in Italian, you very often structure the question the same as a statement, but using different intonation...
"La tavola e stretta?" "Sai che domani comincia la vacanca?"
but there are no informal modifiers like 'Do'...
But in Spanish, much to my anguish, it's supposed to be structured like:
"Es estrecha la mesa?" ...ergh...
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
I think it's more like "Kono bangumi wa goran no suponsaa no teikyou de okurishimasu"
I think it's along the lines of "The following program is brought to you by the following sponsors (the sponsors you're looking at)" that would be my best educated guess.
Of course, it varies from time to time with them actually mentioning the sponsors... but the above line is what is used more often, and the others are pretty much based on that one.
I know that:
"Kono bangumi" means this program
"goran" has to do with something that has to do with "to look"
"suponsaa" means sponsors
"teikyou" means to offer and program sponsorship
"okurishimasu" means something along the lines of "to send off" in a polite way.
Last edited by Munsu; Tue, 04-15-2008 at 12:36 AM.
I think Munsu is on the best track here. Do you also know how to write it in Kanji?
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I was wondering if "goran suponsaa" could be a japanisation of "grand sponsor"
Just a guess from someone who never learnt the language, but starts to get used to hearing it.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
I was thinking that too, but I distinctly hear "no" between guran and suponsaa. If it was grand, it would be gorando, not gorano.
It seems they only say the gorano suponsaa part if there's a longer list of sponsors, probably smaller companies. Otherwise it goes straight from listing the sponsors to "wo teikyou de okurishimasu"
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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