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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Difference between ～てしまう and verb + 終わる
In bunpro, it says that one of the meanings of ～てしまう is to finish completely and that
verb + 終わる means to finish/to end. What is the difference between these two since it seems like the same thing? Or ...
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The meaning of ちゃった in a positive sentence
こないだ神社で撮った写真. いっぱいいいねもらっちゃった
This is a sentence that I saw in the subtitles. What is the reason that ちゃった is used here. I know that it used for regret/accidents/completed action, but it seems like ...
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Help understanding 普通に戻ったということは、そういうことなのだろう
How do I interpret the そういうことなのだろう in 普通に戻ったということは、そういうことなのだろう?
「安心しろ。人の触れられたくない領域に、不用意に近付こうとはしない。キミにとって、とても繊細な問題だっただろうからな」
「……助かります」
「普通に戻ったということは、そういうことなのだろう。色々思うところもあるかもしれないが、キミにとっても、重い選択だったろうな」
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Misinterpreting 言い訳はいいから
I'm playing a game and I've hit a cutscene where a henchman is apologizing to the main villain for their failure to defeat the heroes with his plan. After the henchman more or less finishes ...
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What does 気持ちの余裕 mean here?
唐朽さんと別れた後、仕方が無いのでトイレで着替えを済ませることに。
肌は若干ベタつくものの、服が濡れているのと濡れていないのでは気持ちの余裕が違う
Context: a character's thought after he dived into a lake, and helped a girl retrieved her handkerchief . Now he had to ...
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コンビニによって帰ります - what does the "よって帰ります" mean in this sentence? [duplicate]
My Sensei has said it means "popping in" to the shop. But I'm stuck on the "よって" part in particular. What verb is this? Is it an adverb instead?
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The meaning of つま先を突っ張らせて in this context (describes a person's toes)
I met this expression in an eroge, but find it's hard to understand. My guess is "Her toes were constricted "( ? ) but i'm not sure.
Context is a H-scene, where the protagonist
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Is there a name for the practice of directly reflecting back a questioner's words, and is it really that important in Japanese?
I don't really think this is 相槌; I tried searching here for "reflection" or "mirroring" as well but didn't find anything.
Let's take this example conversation:
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What does おなかの奥がきゅうううん mean here?
Though I understood JP people say "きゅん/kyun" when they saw something cute or lovely on social medias, but what does おなかの奥がきゅうううん mean here?
I met this sentence in a visual novel, hope ...
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Meaning of この胸に突き刺さったなら?
I am trying to comprehend Japanese a little better through translating songs, this is from Kirinji's "Killer Tune Kills me" and from what I understand "この胸に" would be translated to ...
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The meaning of 『カン』 and 気配の察知
A character is talking about his abilities in the Adventurer's Guild. I don't understand what does these terms means here. (『カン』 and 気配の察知, i guess he meant "6th sense" but not sure )
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Help understanding the meaning of a part in a song's lyric はち切れてしまいそう [closed]
https://www.uta-net.com/song/41088/
I'm having trouble to understand this part from a song's lyric
はち切れてしまいそう
Hope someone can give me a correct definition of this verb.
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Understanding 遺伝子とは関わりない所で手に入れた何か
From Kaguya-sama ch. 297
遺伝子とは関わりない所で手に入れた何かに人が惹かれることもあるだろう
I have trouble understanding the meaning of the bold part, especially 所 and 手に入れた何か.
遺伝子とは関わりない所で seems to mean during situations where ...
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Understanding「1千万円以上は下らない代物」
From One Piece ch. 97,
I am not sure how should I understand「1千万ベリー以上は下らない代物」. I know it means something like "item that cannot be less than 10 million berries." The word 下らない throws me off....
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What are these words referring to in this sentence: 「咲く場所を厭わない私の体は...」
In One Piece, when Robin reveals her Hana Hana no Mi ability to Pell, she says 咲く場所を厭わない私の体は...あなたを決して逃がさない.
On one hand, I have an idea of what she is saying. I imagine it would be along the lines of ...
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What are the differences between ~といわれている, ~とされている and ~と考えられている?
I understand that these verbs related to expressing a certain belief or viewpoint. I frequently confuse the three.
From what I can understand the meanings are:
~といわれている
Repeating or reporting on ...
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What does し do here? 「そのほうが頭の固いお方にもご理解いただけそうですし。 」
The sentence where I found this occurance is そのほうが頭の固いお方にもご理解いただけそうですし.
The only explanations I found are "(at the end of a phrase) notes one (of several) reasons" and "at sentence end; ...
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Meaning of 信用していなさる
「ダンブルドア先生は大切な用事をいつも俺に任せてくださる。おまえさんを迎えに来たり、グリンゴッツから何か持ってきたり....俺を信用していなさる。な?」 (Harry Potter, Japanese TL)
Professor Dumbledore always entrusts important errands to me. Things like picking you up, ...
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What does とおす mean in the sentence 「声を落とせ。既に目は通してある。」？
I am not sure what the word 通す means in the context of 「声を落とせ。既に目は通してある。」(Lower your voice. I've already looked it over).
On Jisho, it says 通す means "to stick through" or "to (look, ...
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What does this expression means 限りなく白に近いグレー in this context ? (crime scene investigation theme)
Although i do know white/black colors in Japanese meant innocent/ guilty, I'm not sure about the meaning of this expression "限りなく白に近いグレー ". Hope someone can correct my understanding if i was ...
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Can someone help me understand this interaction?
This is an interaction that I saw while reading Pokemon Special.
The context is a gym battle between Platinum and Suzuna. When Platinum defeats Suzuna's first Pokemon, she explains how her Emperte has ...
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Can someone explains the meaning of this expression ? 寄せ集めの色が濃い
A general said this comment about a bandit he just fought:
黄巾賊は、数は多いが寄せ集めの色が濃い。首脳部はそうではないかもしれんが
I can only understand vaguely that he might be saying the bandits though having a large number of troops,...
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Meanings of っこなし
How many meanings does っこなし have?
On the one hand, I've seen in jisho and here that っこなし is a variant of っこない, which means "no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen".
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Can anyone explain こんなもんよ?
This is a phrase I came across while watching Pokemon in Japanese. The fan subtitles have it translated as "How are you doing now?". However, from looking at a Japanese dictionary, that does ...
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What does this means 程度は知ったほうが良い when someone gave other person an advice?
程度は知ったほうが良い
Hope someone can explains this expression's meaning.
Context: 2 subordinates saw their general went too far ahead from his troops in a battle. Although this general is strong and killed ...
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What does this means in this context ? 武勲をあげる
武勲をあげる
Much thanks if anyone can help me understand its meaning.
Context: The author is describing a general who was being invited to participates in a battle.
孫堅は左軍司馬としてこの戦に参加している。
朱儁に請われて参戦したものだが、...
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Can you help me know what does "カンジ" means?
I came across a drawing tutorial about colouring eyes on pixiv. And there is this sentence:
こんなカンジの目を描きたい人向け。
I know カンジ reads as "Kanji". But if you put in the sentence and the content ...
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what does ゆげ(?) mean in this sentence?
I'm making my way through a kid's book, and came across the sentence しゅわしゅわって、さびしいゆげが、立ってるもの。What does ゆげ or ゆげが mean here? I searched dictionaries and googled it but everything is just saying steam, ...
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Need help with this expression's meaning ロマンはあります [duplicate]
「ロマンはありますけど、でもやっぱり気になりますね」
Hope someone can explains to me the meaning of this expression in this sentence. My guess : "Though your reason sounds very romantic (?), but i'm still curious about ...
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Differences in the meaning for 女子 [closed]
When I check 女子on google I have found two contrasting definitions:
There is : https://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20%E5%A5%BD
Which states that the meanings are "fond, pleasing, like something"...
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Don't understand fully how "なきゃよかった" means if ___ hadn't or if I hadn't ___
Is the なきゃ like referring to there not being something presently or something? Or is it more like [the hypothetical idea of not doing something][was good]...though even if it was that I don't think I ...
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Need help about the meaning of a character's thought about his cousin （今の流れは、そういう“振り”だと思うじゃん）
（今の流れは、そういう“振り”だと思うじゃん）
Hope someone can explains Mc's thought correctly about his cousin here (My guess but not sure : "You know I'm about to punch you , so you're pretending to avoid that aren'...
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Cant find on Jisho and dont know top kanji?
I looked on Jisho as others recommended and so far I see Akete can be happy new year but i dont know the first kanji at the top or how id look it up. I see it says utsukushi for beautiful. So my guess ...
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Confused by a sentence with double negation なしじゃん！(reaction of MC's little cousin after being punched by him (●｀・ω・)=Ｏ)｀-д゜)
Hope someone can help me with the meaning of this sentence.
しかもグーでとか手加減なしじゃん！！！ (my guess : "Also you're not going easy on me at all with that punch/ You punched me too hard !!!" )
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What does 愛し尽くしたい mean?
This was the last line of a song's lyrics. Checking several dictionaries tells me that it means "I want to love ___ to the end", but DeepL is saying something else ("I want to love you ...
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What is meant by そこはね here?
女：手でね、書かなくても、今パソコンで作るからさ、別に問題はないんだけど でも頭の中にあるものを手で書けたら、なんかもっと幅が広がるような気がして
男：これ、あれですね、ペンタブ買うやつですね
女：いや、まずはね・・・まずあの・・・そんなお金はかけない。紙からやるけど、上手になったら考える
男：偉いね！形から入るタイプの人だったらまず買うよ
女：いや、でもさ、...
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What does this means when describes a person's eyes/gaze looking at you ?焦点の合わない瞳で、ぼやーっと見た。
I'm having troubles with this expression, appreciates if someone can make this clear.
焦点の合わない瞳で、ぼやーっと見た。
My guess : "..looking at me with absentmindedly eyes."
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meaning of ちゃってる / chatteiru
As far as I know, the sentence "入っちゃってる自分の世界" translates to something like "I'm deep in my own world" or maybe "I went deep into my own world".
What I don't completely ...
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How is に used in 人に助言をして欲しいタイプ ？
人に助言をして欲しいタイプと、人に何かを言われるのが嫌いなタイプの性格の違いは、何でしようか。友人に、人に言われるのが嫌いな人がおられるのですが
I am a bit confused by に here .This sentence: "人に助言をして欲しいタイプ" means the type that wants to be advised by others. Why ...
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What does やけに上から来る means about a person?
I met this expression when reading, MC called to an "大沢退魔師紹介所/ Exorcist Referral Agency" (Ghost Buster ?) since he needs to solve a series of paranormal incidents at his school. There are 2 ...
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What does 相殺される refer to here?
商人ギルドに店を登録した時にも口添えをしてくれ、商人ギルドから開業資金を借りると、その利子と初年度のギルド会費が相殺されることも教えてくれた。工費がかからなかったとはいえ、貯金は材料費でほとんど持っていかれていたので良かった。初年度のギルド会費が払えず営業権剝奪ということもこれで心配ない。
Does this mean that the interest of the debt will ...
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What does the の in AよりBのほう?
So I understand that this format means that you like something more than something else, but what exactly does the の function as. From my understanding, the より kind of means "than," and the ...
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Help reading this please [closed]
This is from a kanken game. Theres quite a few I cant read. Is it okay to post more as I find them to ask for help? Of course I will try google first.
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Is this usage of へ wrong?
それと同時に、日本の勢力下にあった満洲への研究施設の設置も着手された
Shouldn't に be used here instead of へ? As far as I know, the function of へ is to denote the direction in which an action is taken, not a direction in which an ...
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Am I understanding this 遭遇 correctly?
オートバランサは一瞬だけ装着者の動作を遅らせると言われている。人間より遙かに計算速度が速い機械がやることだ。普通の人間では気づかぬほんのわずかな時間である。
だが、その一瞬が戦場では生死の境を分けることがある。
一万人のジャケット兵が参加する作戦を三回やって、とびきり運の悪い奴がひとり遭遇するかしないかの確率であろうとも、もしかしたら女神に見放された運の悪い奴に自分がなってしまう可能性がある。...
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What's the meaning and usage of って言うんだ in this case?
How does って言うんだ affect the following question.
こんなことして何になるって言うんだ
I think it makes sense to me without it so I can't tell what it does and I don't think it's the normal "X person says" という ...
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Meaning of 吹っ飛ぶ
I understood 吹っ飛ぶ to mean 'blow off' as in 'the washing blew off the line' or 'he blew the door off the safe' etc.
I came across this sentence:
そのうち学校であのポッターに出会って、二人ともどっかへ行って結婚した。そしておまえが生まれたんだ。ええ、ええ、...
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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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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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