Questions tagged [japanese-to-english]
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What is the meaning of いじります in Information Technology?
Wordpress team always uses いじります for fixing/editing code files. I somehow can understand it is "Editing", or "Fixing", or "Modifying".
But I just want to know it clear. Google translated to "messing ...
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Can you help me understand this sentence please?
I just came across a sentence about the National Flag of Japan. I don't think I fully understood it. So here it is:
話題の旭日旗です。長野県1滋野村2(現3ｰ東御市4、小諸市5)にあった軍6の後援7組織8「滋野軍友会」の旗9。戦前、...
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お父さんの無念を引き継ぎ糧にすることが出来る。 What's the meaning?
お父さんの無念を引き継ぎ糧にすることが出来る。
I tried to understand what this sentence means, but I am totally confused.
It was related to an assets that left behind, but there was 糧 character which means food or ...
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Use of 全て（すべて）in a sentence
Would it be accurate to say:
すべてが高かったので何も買いませんでした。
to mean "I did not buy anything because everything was expensive."
Is the phrasing correct? And is the use of the particle ”が” accurate or should I ...
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Use of という in a sentence
Hope someone can help me. I'm struggling with the exact usage of という in this sentence:
会う約束をした友達から乗っている電車が止まっているというメールが来た。
Many thanks.
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How is いい being used in this sentence?
もしも僕に心があるならどうやってそれをみつければいいの
I understand the sentence translates along the lines of "If I had a heart, how would I find it?" And I know "いい" means "good/fine/etc" but I'm not sure how to fit that ...
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Meaning of 離れている間 and how do I read it, please?
I'm reading a japanese manga and the boy didn't want to get away from his senpai, he told senpai that and senpai thought was having a monologue "離れている間".
Thankyou for taking your time reading this.
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How is 今一度 a noun in Japanese/English?
I came across the bolded segment in the following sentence and translated it as "once more".
だが私としては、彼には今一度実りある人生を歩むチャンスを与えてやりたい。
Both Jishio.org, and tanoshiijapanese.com say that 今一度 is a noun, ...
