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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Meaning and usage of 刺激（しげき）?
I've come across this word 刺激 a few times now, but although the dictionary says it means "stimulation" none of the contexts I've seen it in makes sense with that definition.
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Historical meaning of an army's name in Sengoku era 美濃八千騎
美濃八千騎
I read a historical novel with Sengoku era setting , and there's a character mentioned about this name of an army. If you know about it's historical meaning please explain.
Context is an enemy's ...
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Is 片付きます a word?
In the first lesson of みんなの日本語初級II (lesson 26), the word 片【かた】づきます shows up as "be put in order, tidy up." I looked in a couple of dictionaries, and can only find 片【かた】付【づ】けます, which has the ...
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What does 休まないでください mean in the given contex?
I'm going through listening comprehension examples, and though, I can recognise separate words (well, most of them), particles, grammar and so on and recall their meaning, I still have trouble with ...
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What is the meaning of けっこういらっしゃる in the following context?
I came across the following sentence while watching the video JLPT N3 LISTENING PRACTICE TEST 12/2023 WITH ANSWERS #5, at the timestamp 10:50:
食事がすんでいるのにずっと帰りにならない方がけっこういらっしゃるのが気になります
I heard the ...
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What does「お金どころじゃなく出てきた」mean?
I don't get the meaning of お金どころじゃなく出てきた below:
お義父さんは別れる半年前に事業に失敗して借金を抱えてた。イライラして暴力を振るうようになって最後はもうお金どころじゃなく出てきたんだ。
I interpreted it as "[we] no longer have financial security..." I am ...
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Is the following usage of について natural?
This is a sentence I came across when I was reading about 書体 on Wikipedia:
書体（しょたい）とは、一定の文字体系のもとにある文字について、それぞれの字体が一貫した特徴と独自の様式を備えた字形として、表現されているものをいう
I feel について here is used as は (i.e. a topic ...
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Understanding ドッキリにかけられている
A guy confessed to a girl he likes and she accepted it but he asked her if she is serious or not. His inner monologue went like this:
こんなに疑心暗鬼になるのは実は「告白」にトラウマがあるからだ
だから今の状況はドッキリにかけられているみたいで
I don't ...
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What's the difference between 初心者, 入門者 and 初級者
I see 初級 Written mostly in books which means beginner or elementary level, the other two were written on the same page for a drawing course I found online as "入門者向け" and "初心者向け", ...
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Help breaking down えむさえいけそうなら
In the script I'm translating, Emu and Tsukasa are practicing a scene for a play where Emu has to jump from a tree to a window. After the rehearsal, Tsukasa says
とはいえ、やはり高さがあると緊張感が違うな。
えむさえいけそうなら、...
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What is 家ーーーーー！！ supposed to mean here? [FFXIV video game slang]
In an FFXIV music video, they got cheeky and showed a funny hypothetical chat-log during a Raid.
I basically understand all of it, except for the "家ーーーーー！！" exclamation in the beginning. ...
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Need help breaking down some grammar
In a script I'm translating, Character A is telling Character B how Character C isn't afraid of performing difficult stunts. A proceeds to say:
……多少は危ないことに危機感を持ってほしいというか、あの無謀さは少々どうかと思う時もあるが——
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Understanding 大事なコミュニケーションだと言わんばかりの潔さ
I have trouble understanding the bold part below:
人に迷惑を掛ける事へ一切の躊躇がない。人に迷惑を掛ける事そのものが、大事なコミュニケーションだと言わんばかりの潔さ。そうだ、アイはこれだった。(source)
In particular, I don't understand the meaning of the word 潔さ. It ...
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What does 浮く mean here?
A high-schooler was thinking about what to do during lunch
大人だったら別に一人メシなんて普通なんだけど...高校ジャやっぱ浮く...よなぁ
I am uncertain what 浮く means here. I think it means in high school, there are many ways to eat?
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Meaning of き in 唾をぶっかけて.き.やがるからな。
If I am correct, then ぶっかける and やがる are verbs but what is the き doing in between them?
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この辺では、言葉に気をつけた方がいいぜ。町のこちら側に住んでいるやつらは、口笛を吹いただけでも顔に唾をぶっかけてきやがるからな。
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You have to be careful about ...
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As "red", what's the difference between 紅{くれない}, 紅{べに}, 紅{こう} and 紅色?
On Weblio, the same dictionary says 紅{くれない} means "crimson" (deep red) and 紅{べに} means "vermilion" (bright red). Another dictionary says 紅{くれない}, 紅{べに}, 紅{こう} are all nouns, but I ...
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Why are there multiple ways to say hello in Japanese and how would I use them?
I have been learning basic sentences in Japanese, but I want to know what to use when I meet somebody and why. the three I know are:
Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
Konnichiwa.
Hajimemashite.
What would I ...
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Does た+ "ところで" always mean "No matter what", "Even if?"
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後ろ盾を得たところで
さっさく調べちまおう
"後ろ盾を得た" is a way of saying that means "To obtain one support". The character proposed an hypothesis about the situation and his partner agreed, which ...
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What does カンベン mean here?
A middle-aged man who somehow transformed into his younger self was smoking out of habit and he wondered
今俺がこの姿で吸い続けて元に戻った時、その辺どうなのかなって、突然肺がんとかカンベンなんだけど
I don't understand what カンベン means in this ...
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What does き stand for in 招き猫?
As question suggests: what does き stands for in 招き猫? Is it some sort of particle, that "connects" 招(invitation) and 猫(cat) or something else?
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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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Does とみに here mean intensely?
サトルは正義感がとみに強い男ではあるが、それをいいことに利用しようとすりよる輩も存在していた。
The 広辞苑 dictionary lists とみに to have the meaning of しきりに :
しきりに。「老眼が―進んだ」「国運―衰える」
which on of its meanings is "intensely".so, does とみに here ...
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Meaning of あすは天気だと思う
In my dictionary app I found this as an example phrase:
あすは天気だと思う
They say it means:
I hope it'll be fine tomorrow.
Is this a correct Japanese sentence at all? And does it mean what they say it ...
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What is the difference between びっくりした and びっくりするじゃないの
What is the difference between びっくりした and びっくりするじゃないの?
The only thing I can think of is that one is just a general way of saying that something scared you, whilst the other is a way of "blaming" the ...
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What どんぶり勘定 means in this context?
I have doubts about the usage of the phrase どんぶり勘定 below:
Jisho suggested that I should understand it as "rough estimate" of profit, which kind of makes sense to me in this context. However,...
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「買ったやつ」the guy who bought, or the thing that was bought?
I am reading the Japanese translation of Matilda by Roald Dahl. Spoilers ahead.
Mr. Wormwood has just finished explaining how he cheats his customers at his second hand car store. He fills the engine ...
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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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What does 余裕がない actually mean?
The characters are carrying a heavy object. However, now they are standing in place (with the object) and doing nothing, so one of them asks the other character:
動いてもよいか?俺もそこまで余裕がない
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What does 生きる mean in 才能が生きてくる? Is that expression an idiom? Can you provide some extra examples highlighting the same usage of 生きる?
I came across the following sentence in my textbook, 新完全マスターN2 文法, and I can't understand the part in bold font:
チャンスがあってはじめて、才能が生きてくるのではないだろうか。
I looked up the expression 才能が生きる just in case it was ...
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What does "プラついてる" mean, and how to research similar weird lines?
For context, the three main characters are visiting a museum and being sneaky by doing it while their parents are out. I know the gist of the line is "We're the heretics for taking advantage of ...
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What does ことになってんだ mean in this sentence? [duplicate]
しばらく構ってやれないが良い子にできるか?
Which is "I won't be able to keep company to you for a while, but will you still be a good kid/behave?"
To which the character screams this reply:
I'm stumbled on the ...
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What does ばかりで in "愉快な仲間ばかりで頼もしいぜ" mean
愉快な仲間ばかりで頼もしいぜ
I can not understand the ばかりで in this sentence. Are ばかり and で stand together or both of them stand alone?
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What 変なのあった refers to here?
I am uncertain what 変なのあった refers to in the last sentence.
I think it refers to different computer models. Perhaps, a person who brought these computers?
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Is this なことには here functions the same as 不思議なことには?
さらに重要なことには、これほどの美女がネズミを駆除するなど誰も信じない
i encountered this sentence on the witcher3 . Is this なことには here functions the same as 不思議なことには?
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How 極めつけは is understood here?
I am uncertain about the meaning of 極めつけは～ in the below panel:
The author explains that computer games developed in 90's can use up to 15 colours simultaneously on display.
After some Google search, ...
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How to understand 君だけ in this sentence?
I hear the sentence from the song『星のかがやきよ ZARD』
君だけは変わらないでいて欲しい
I think there are 2 ways to interpret it:
I only want you to remain unchanged. (The person whom I want to remain unchanged is only ...
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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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What does "こうと思っていたことを思い出した" mean?
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今日は午前中家の掃除をして、本を読んだり日記を見直していました。
元々は一日家でのんびりしようと思っていたけど、午後、前から時間があったら近くのお寺に引っ越しの挨拶をしに行こうと思っていたことを思い出したので行きました。
お寺は閉まっていたので近くの神社に行ってきました。
I think there's a little complex structure in that ...
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What does 何があんだよ mean here?
なんでここに?
Why are you here
飯食いに来た以外に何があんだよ
"Other than coming to eat..."
I'm stumbled on this meaning of 何があんだよ. From context he seems to be saying "what else is there to do here?"...
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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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舞妓さんちのまかないさん what's the meaning of chi here? [duplicate]
舞妓さんちのまかないさん what's the meaning of ち here?
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How is this usage of 選ばれる understood?
I encountered an odd use of 選ばれる in the sentences below:
毎年「流行語大賞」が選ばれている
本屋大賞はなぜ選ばれるのですか
It is weird to say that "[award] gets selected" in English. How is 選ばれる best understood here?
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Understanding「知見ばかりだった」
A person is commenting about his experience working with two well known writers:
あのニ人は創作能力で言えば日本で指折りのクリエイターだ
俺じゃ逆立ちしても出てこない知見ばかりだったよ
I have trouble understanding the 知見ばかりだった part. I guess 知見 refers ...
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Is 「将来が期待される」 idiomatic? Why does it mean "promising future"? Why is the passive form used in the sentence at issue?
I came across the following sentence as an example sentence for the grammar point つつある in 新完全マスター文法N2:
この会社は現在発展しつつあり、将来が期待される。
My attempted translation is
As this company continues to develop, &...
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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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Is 頭上を取る some kind of slang?
I'm sorta stumbled on this meaning here. "A skill level that can touch over the top of my head"?
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What's the difference between Kaigi (会議), Kaigou (会合) and Shuugoo (集合)?
If my understanding is correct, it seems like the three of them is about a groupment of people.
Kaigi (会議) is work related, while Kaigou (会合) and Shuugoo (集合) is used in the context of family & ...
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What is the exact difference between "が世話になって and "に世話になって
So this character says to this girl
課長にはいつもお世話になってます。。。 Aka "The section chief (your husband) is always helping me"
But then this girl says to him
いつも主人が世話になってます aka "Thanks for always ...
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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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can で particle be used to say "and"
I saw some example sentences where the で particle was used to say "and", can't you just use "と" or "し"? Why was で used?
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