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This phrase comes from がばいばあちゃん p. 169, ch. 13. The whole sentence reads: 俺が振り返ったのと、おっちゃんが箱の中の豆腐を自分の手で潰したのは、ほとんど同時だった。 The context for this sentence is the following. The protagonist, 昭広, is told by ...

What is the purpose of のは in the sentence “今浮かんだのは”? The context is, I asked someone what their favorite English word was and they said “Hmm 今浮かんだのは bullshit. Just kidding!” Would the translation be ...

I understand that both means to emphasize the uniqueness of the word before it (i.e. "only ~") but in the following sentence, I don't know which one fits. この難しい手術ができるのは、渡辺先生＿＿のものだ。 Both ならでは and ...

I'm trying to make sense of this phrase to me 君を幸せにできるのは僕だけだと信じていました。 Kimi o shiawase ni dekiru nowa boku dake da to shinjite imashita. which I found translated as I always believed I was ...

So I've changed my question in regarding these so called nominalisation and the usage of の, こと, 物。My confusion stems from what I learned or lacked from this specific website that explains about の ...

結局の所問題なのは地面を覆っているアスファルトだ。 Why is there a なの here even though 問題 is a noun? Are there other nouns that can have also have it, is it only restricted for 問題, or it's possible for all nouns? On the side ...

そこで、マッカーサーが自分で作って見たのが地図Aである。 https://www.docdroid.net/847v2dg/img-20170413-0001-new.pdf.html The sentence is from Line 5 in the above linked text. the problem lies with のが. I don't really understand ...

I need some help with understanding the meaning of the のが part in the last sentence (shown in bold), which this answer has told me means that the sentence is a cleft sentence and this one told me how ...

Sorry for the bother. I'm in the middle of translating some notes from a musician on their newest album's tracks, and I ran into such a weird looking phrase that I don't know what to do with. Here's ...

I've been plugging away on novel translations for years now and figure I should ask more questions about it around here, since the freelance life does not make it easy to network with people. My ...

私がこの町のことをよく知っているのは、 前に________。 1. 住んでいたんですから 2. 住んでいたからなんです According to the answer key, the correct answer is 2. I want to know why it is not answer 1. What is the difference between たんですから ...

The sentence: 守りたいのはあなた This sentence can either mean "The one I want to protect is you" or it can mean "the one who wants to protect (someone else) is you". Any way to distinguish besides context?

上には上がいるので自分はすごいんですなんてそうそう言っちゃいけないなとつくづく感じるわ…… 本気ですごいでしょ？って言っていいのなんて世界で一番の界隈に入った時だけよな〜〜 じゃないと恥をかく I'd translate it as: I strongly feel that, because there is always someone better than you, I can't ...

The taiko memoir saga continues. Today's challenge: それを癒せるのも、自分自身や、その一人一人を包む鼓童の奏でる音からでしかないのだが・・・ Here's the context leading up to (and including) this sentence, which is the last one on the page: ...

For full context: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10011273631000/k10011273631000.html The sentence in question: 水族館は、オウサマペンギンが外で散歩をすることができるのは気温が低くなる冬だけなので、いい運動になると言っています。 My attempt at translation: ...