Questions tagged [meaning]
意味. The meaning of words or phrases within certain contexts, especially when it does not seem to match the standard definition.
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Kanji for darkness: 暗 vs 闇, nuance? meaning? use cases?
In Heisig's book Remembering the Kanji, 16th edition, kanji #519 (暗) is named Darkness. In Yu-gi-oh however the darkness element uses 闇
According to the following link, 暗 does indeed mean dark, ...
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が and けど at end of a sentence
I know that when in a sentence-final position が and けど can be used as softeners or to convey hedging, but in some situations understanding them as such doesn't feel right. Although my brain ...
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Meaning of idioms difficult to translate
I have to understand two japanese idioms and I am having a very hard time finding a meaning for them (on a dictionary I mean). Can someone explain them to me
机上 as in 「机上実行」 related to the execution ...
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Meaning of "・・・・・・ありません." at the end of a sentence
I am fairly new to Japanese and am reading through a book passage with this sentence:
"決して、 侑としずくの 楽しそうなお出かけに ヤキモチを焼いたわけ では・・・・・・ありません."
I can make sense of the first half, but the addition ...
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What's the ちゃう form doing in this sentence?
Basically, it's an actress talking about how she has kept in touch with one of her costars from a play they did together
... 終わってからも,
実は定期的に会っちゃったりして
What is the chau form doing in 会っちゃった? I know ...
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The meaning of this expression こんなことを言うのも何ですけど [duplicate]
hope someone can explains to me the correct meaning of this expression .My guess is : "I don't know if this is the right word to describe you" ?
Context: After MC described his strategy in ...
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Could someone please explain to me the meaning of もち in the following sentence?
私たちは自然の流れとは別の生活リズムをもち始め、次第に自然との調和を失い始めたのです。
I searched but couldn't find an answer.
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How could you improve the word Hikari-tai (火雷隊) as a name
This might be a subjective question
Okay first things first, this question is more about trying to come up with a better name that doesn't disrespect or butcher the language. And I'm not really ...
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Why is the same English meaning of ため tied to different Japanese meanings in different dictionaries?
Jisho gives "consequence; result; effect" with an example sentence
それは、おまえの声をよく聞くためだよ。(It is in order to hear your voice well.)
Tangorin gives "consequence; result; effect" ...
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Question about で in this sentence
"「タクシーに乗る」は英語で、I ride a taxiで正解！？"
I saw this question being posted on the web by someone and my issue is about the meaning of the sentence itself specifically the phrase "I ride a ...
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What is the meaning of ぬ in the song ミルクムナリ? (Not the archaic auxiliary verb ぬ)
Call me crazy, but I am trying to translate ミルクムナリ, which is common played in Taiko performances, at least in Okinawa; the song is very archaic, as it speaks of a king from the turn of the 16th ...
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What does this ninja art means ? 蒼燕瞬歩 (souen shunpo ? not sure if I spelt this correctly) [closed]
蒼燕瞬歩
I met this ninja art/ skill name in a video game , and don't know if anyone can understand the meaning of this skill. If this is not a made up skill name by the writer, please explains to me its ...
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Need help with a confusing sentence.(A character's comment about his opponent's ability/strength.He thought that his opponent can predict his attacks)
いくつもの過程が続いて導き出される、一連の行動。その行動パターンを、可能性の高い順に考え、読み切り、その対処法を準備する。
Much thanks if anyone can explains to me this sentence's meanings. I'm afraid that i was wrong.
My guess is : "You can derive a ...
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What does ことに mean when combined with 幸運 (good luck)? [closed]
I saw someone write 幸運はことに, how would you translate this to English?
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Meaning and usage of ～ど／～ども
What do the structures ～ど／～ども exactly mean? How are they used?
I have seen these structures in this site:
https://nihongonosensei.net/?p=7938
but I don't understand very well the explanation, apart ...
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Meaning of も in ３つ も
I've got this sentence that I'm not sure if it is grammatically correct:
今月、 大切な テスト が ３つ も あります
It supposedly translates to
I have three important tests this month.
Why the も, though? The counter ...
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What is the difference between 衛生的 and 清潔?
I already knew the adjective 清潔 that means "clean, hygienic", but I recently came across the word 衛生的 which also means "hygienic" and I don't understand in what situations should I ...
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Need someone to explains the meaning of this idiom 惰眠を貪るほど無駄なことはないからな
Context: A comes in to wakes B up , but she found B woke up already.
A「起きろB！」
A「────と、なんだ。起きてるではないか」
B「お陰様で昨日はぐっすり寝たからね。
Aさんも朝が早いね」
A「惰眠を貪るほど無駄なことはないからな。」(>> My guess : "There's nothing ...
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meaning of 百日のつもり
I am reading a book and found this paragraph that I don't understand
小生の命も後百日のつもりその間身のすりきれるほど働くつもり
I am getting that he intends to live what is left of his life working until his last breath.
I am not ...
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the meaning of "のこと" in this sentence
Ohayou, please i wanted to understand the exact meaning of this definition-like sentence :
"何か、機械とかに人間っぽいことをさせる、知能を持たせるみたいなまあ広い枠組みのことをAIと言って"
And because I found it difficult to really grasp ...
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Don't know how should I understand the meaning of this sentence correctly, since there are too many meanings for 感じすぎる and しっかり
感じすぎるとは言っても、しっかりと腰振りは続けられている。
I'm reading an eroge, and there are too many meanings for "感じすぎる/kanjisugiru" and "しっかり/ shikkari" , so I'm not sure how should i understand this ...
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The meaning of むんわりと when you smell something [duplicate]
Hope someone can explain to me its meaning in this sentence
むんわりと、濃い香りが鼻孔をくすぐる。
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Meaning and usage of ～かとなれば
I've found the grammar pattern ～かとなれば in this site:
https://www.vnjp.org/grammar/detail/293
https://www.vnjp.org/grammar/detail/294
and I would like to know what does it mean as well as its usage.
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Meaning of 〜はしまいか、〜はすまいか、〜ていはしまいか and 〜ていはすまいか
I've found a couple of times while reading novels the grammar patterns
Verb stem + はしまいか/はすまいか
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Verb て + いはしまいか/いはすまいか
However, I googled these patterns, but I couldn't find any website explaining ...
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Is there a single word in japanese that means "like the moon"?
In my native language, Persian, there is a name meaning "like the moon", As in "beautiful like the moon". I wanna know if there is any single word in Japanese like this.
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たら at the end of a compound sentence
I'm wondering if there's a sentence:
AしてBしてCされたら
would the meaning be:
if A, B, C...
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A, B, if C...
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Are "papa" and "mama" also used in Japanese as father and mother?
I often hear "papa" and "mama" in animes, in situations where they seem to mean father and mother. Is that so? Are these words borrowed from the Spanish words "papá" and &...
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What does this means in this context? 「ぁんだよ、手応えねぇなぁ～……」( A girl said this after she killed a demon and saved MC)
Context: MC is facing against 3 monsters/ demons at night, and he's about to lose the battle. But then a girl rush in , killed 2 demons with her spear and saved MC. He's very surprised ad don't know ...
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Confused my the meaning of this character's thought when he's facing against a monster 脳味噌の端っこの方で状況を整理する
A character is facing against a monster, and I don't understand 1 part of his thought here. Hope someone can explain to me its correct meaning.
脳味噌の端っこの方で状況を整理する (my guess: " I'm analyzing the ...
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Having trouble wrapping my head around こういうの in this sentence
クリスマス… 悪くはないわね、こういうの。提督、私は好きよ。少し…酔いそう。
I can understand pretty much everything but the use of こういうの in there, is there something I'm missing? Is the speaker just reinforcing the statement they've ...
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Whats the accurate meaning of this ごまかすin this sentence?
照れ臭くなるとすぐごまかす... これじゃわかんなぃよ
She doesn't understand the person because when the person feels awkward she ...plays it off/trying to hide it?
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じゃない and its uses [duplicate]
In a script I'm translating, two kids are reenacting The Little Mermaid at a park and then one of the kids's mom walks up and says: ちょ……ちょっとふたりとも何をやってるの！？ビショビショじゃない！
According to DeepL, this じゃない isn'...
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What is the meaning of "良いん in this sentence?
”あと何センチ近づけば良いんだろう”
What is the meaning of "良いん” in this sentence?
I know that it means "good", but this sentence is translated as:
"How many centimeters closer should I get?"
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What does the "なん" mean in: "君なんだよ"? [duplicate]
In the song "光るなら" there is a lyric that is:
"君だよ、君なんだよ"
When I translate it, it translates to: It was you, It was you!
Another example is in this lyric from the song "...
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What does this expression means about a person ? 「……やけに他人事だな、貴様は」
Context: A clan leader wanted to keep MC in her family/clan because she thinks MC is a skilled warrior and can use him. But her subordinate disagreed and wanted to kick MC out, since she's worried ...
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is this sentence using ほど grammatically correct?
I was watching this youtube vidoe about making a dish out of an greater amberjack fish (kampachi) and the cook
said this:
鰤ほどは痛むスピードが遅いですけど
i think he wants to say that the greater amberjack fish ...
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what does those sentences mean?
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どうあがけば人間が雷に勝てるというのだ
Here, I don't understand the どうあがけば and というのだ, what do they mean? Can someone explain to me the grammar and the usage here?
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空で育ったお前でも遠雷くらい見ていよう
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Scope of negation with 〜したくない
In English, we can distinguish between not wanting to do something, and wanting to not do something. It's not a distinction that we usually make, but it is possible:
P = "do anything"
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What does しっかりしてください in this context mean?
I've came across this one page comic panel about an apprentice girl and her teacher, the teacher then give her a job which he said will be "handy" (手頃な) for the apprentice but the truth it ...
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What does this means in this context ? 気組みを外してみたものの……どう対応したものだろうな (MC's thought after a girl asked him to withdraw from a proposal and leave)
Context: MC had accepted a proposal from a clan leader, that he'll become her husband. After that the clan leader had to leave, but she had ordered another girl who's also her wife (yuri-nice ^^) to ...
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Is 受け繋が usage here correct?
アレキサンダー、ハンニバル、ローマの将軍達へと受け繋がれてきた英雄達の包囲殲滅戦法
This comment was on a video about the battle of mohacs wherein the ottomens used the pincer attack to win . i think the commenter wanted to say that they - ...
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Help understand this weird wordplay/metaphor: 「あまりに肝を抜かれすぎて、お尻の穴から魂的な何かが漏れそうだ。」
Context: MC has been isekai'd to another world in unconscious state, where nations are fighting for supremacy. A girl asked him to join her clan after brought him back to her house, but MC declined ...
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What does 作品の目的とする表現 actually mean?
これは、作品の目的とする表現に従った演出の結果が見るものに「リアリティ」を感じさせた場合においてであるが、演者が自身の人格や感情を演技の媒介にする（つまり「素」をだしたような）ものは、それが演者の「リアル」であっても、視聴者がリアリティと感じられるかには困難がつきまとう。
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Polite language vs Casual language [duplicate]
The following is from a wedding invitation:
このたび私たちは結婚式を挙げることになりました。つきましては日々お世話になっております皆様方をお招きしてささやかですが小宴を開催したいと存じます。ご多用中誠に恐縮ではございますがぜひご出席をいただきたくご案内申し上げます。敬具。
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Understanding this exchange 「……苦労が絶えないな」「なんかその言われ方ヤダ」
What's confusing me in the below exchange is:
What he means by 苦労が絶えない in this context
The usage of 言われ方. I often see 言い方 but I don't think I've seen 言われ方 before.
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Understanding rhetorical じゃない in written form
ああ、連中の考えることときたらおまえ、まともじゃない。わしらとは人種が違う。
Ah, when it comes to how these folk think, you're decent aren't you?. They're a different kind of people from us.
This is a response to being asked whether a ...
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Attack on Titan: What is もしくは doing in this comparision
I saw this sentence in an episode of Attack on Titan
ライナーができないと言うようにもしくはライナーでさえここで休まざるを得ない現状を鑑みるに
The speaker is referencing something that ライナー said they can't do
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How to express accidentally sitting on something
その銃は、ダドリーが尻に敷いて銃身をひどく曲げてしまい、...
Dudley sat on the gun and bent the barrel badly ...
Is 尻に敷く normal Japanese for "to sit on something"? I guess it could be from the literal translation of '...
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What does this means in this context ? 占い師と騎士を同じにされては困る (MC is worry about a knight when she's about to leave the city at sunset )
There's a sentence which i'm not sure about its meaning when reading. Hope someone can explains to me the correct meaning , if my understanding was wrong.
Context: MC is worry about a knight when she'...
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The usage of でも
I am getting a bit confused with the multiple uses of でも. Permission, even if, without doing, etc.
I have the following 2 sentences to translate. Note - these sentences might not be valid
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