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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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。
For context this is the on the definition of the word 迫真 and I ...
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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。
I have a particularly hard time ...
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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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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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How do you say "it is becoming evening / it is getting evening"?
Not "it is evening", not "in the evening", not "it is getting late". I wanted to translate a famous quote and I was thinking something like:
聞け、夕方なっている
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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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what is the meaning of はじめ皆?
水曜日は栗並さんはじめ皆さん、In this sentence, how shall I understand はじめ皆? What are the Kanji? Is は a particle, or is it the beginning of the word?
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Meaning of ここを動くんじゃないぞ? [duplicate]
The translator says it means: "Don't move from here.", but form my understanding it would have to be ここから動くんじゃないぞ instead to have this meaning, so what exactly is を doing here? My first ...
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Meaning of 一文にもならない from Super Mario RPG. (With pictures)
https://i.stack.imgur.com/gSZ60.jpg
This is from a video teaching Japanese meaning from Super Mario RPG.
Source: https://youtu.be/1LMxshr0BE4?t=497
The context is: Mario and Mallow(little white puff ...
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What is the meaning of ビリビリ in this context?
Context/conversation added:
友達さん: ヒカリちゃん、なんでアニキにだけちょっと怖いも?
ヒカリちゃん: ふーん?あんたもビリビリされたいってわけ!?
ヒカリちゃん is a so-called ツンデレcharacter. アニキ is the main character of the story and ヒカリちゃん is noticeably harsher ...
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what is the exact meaning of パネだく in below sentence
I searched in internet to find the meaning of パネだく in the below sentence:
世の中には 説明のつかないことがパネだくあっし。
the brief translation I found for this sentence is:
This world is full of things which are ...
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What is the meaning of もちうるもの全て in this context
I am really confused on how to translate もちうるもの全て in the first manga panel. I tried pasting it into some online translators and it said something like "everything that can be used" but ...
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Meaning of それなりに
ダドリーがドタドタと、それなりに全速力でやってきた。
Dudley came waddling towards them as fast as he could (original text).
Most references suggest that それなりに means 'in its own way'.
This might be a grey area, but does ...
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ようにしてください Question, Verb + する?
Hello I am learning Japanese right now and was wondering what the difference between these two sentences is (or if the latter is even correct?)
水を飲むようにしてください。
水を飲むするようにしてください。
I was doing a quiz and ...
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What does つく mean in this context?
I hope this question is not too dumb.
The context comes from Spirited Away:
Mother father and daughter arrive at some empty food stand
(Fater) すみませーん、どなたかいませんかー？
(Mother) 千尋{ちひろ}もおいで、おいしそうよ。
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カン - What does it mean in this context?
I'm playing through a game and came across the below line. It is read by an old man in a fantasy setting - think knights.
ワシのカンは あたったようじゃな。
From my understanding, ワシ means "I" but mainly ...
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Different combinations of せっかく, their meanings and examples
As of today, the vast majority of times I've come across せっかく, I've ended up understanding it in a somewhat blurry way and guessing the meaning from context. However, I would like to finally structure ...
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What does 歪な mean in this context?
In the anime called Quintessential Quintuplets, one of the girls is talking to their mother’s (who has already passed away) used to be homeroom teacher.
The teacher: 僕は彼女の担任教師だったんだ
君は若い頃のお母さんそっくりだ
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What is the difference between 虐め and 嫌がらせ? Can you provide example sentences that highlight the difference?
Both terms mean "harassment". I tried to find out the differences by searching the Internet, but beyond this short Q&A in English:
いやがらせ means harassment.
いじめ is more serious ...
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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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What does し of されし means？
I was playing hollow knight and a character said "愛されし王のために", i searched and found out that し is a conjugation of an aulixiary that means past and it was used in classical japanese, but i ...
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The Quintessential Quintuplets - Difference between うそうそ (uso uso) and 冗談 (じょうだん jōdan joke)
From The Quintessential Quintuplets
1 - S01E01
Related: The Quintessential Quintuplets & Higurashi - What does it mean to repeat a word? Does たのしいたのしい means fun-filled?
See here 2:36 - 2:44. The ...
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The Quintessential Quintuplets & Higurashi - What does it mean to repeat a word? Does たのしいたのしい means fun-filled?
1 - Higurashi / Umineko When They Cry
Minor spoilers for Higurashi season 1 and NSFW / violent content: See 1:41 here when Sonozaki wants to go to the 'fun-filled' underground torture chamber.
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Is あり得ない a good translation for "It can't be!"?
I know that a more common translation for あり得ない is "Impossible!" or "That's impossible!", but can あり得ない be used for expressions like, "It can't be!" or "This can't ...
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How does ひらひら and 構う function in this context?
In the visual novel Rewrite, there is a conversation between 咲夜, ちはや and 瑚太郎 (the MC)
Context: This is 咲夜’s first scene in the game, and so far the only thing we know about him is that he is somehow ...
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Looking for example where 明ける means "to begin" *unambiguously*
All the dictionary entries I have found for 明ける include definitions that are almost opposites of each other. More specifically, in some of the definitions, 明ける means something like "to begin&...
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What does 過去へ遡るほど大きいとされる refers to here?
華族制度が今なお存在する（成立時期も約300年前と古い）世界。歴史上江戸時代および鎖国が存在せず、西洋文明の普及が早いなどもうひとつの世界との差異は過去へ遡るほど大きいとされる。
This is an entry about a fictional parallel world of the novel 'ぼくのご主人様 ' i understand this as ; from a ...
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な at the end of a sentence as an imperative
I read from here that な at the end of a sentence could be used as a positive or negative imperative.
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/33973/55298
It said that the dictionary form of a verb + な ...
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How inteligible is Japanese used in Buddhist texts?
I have started learning Japanese some time ago, but I still can't understand the sutras and chants that are used in Zen ceremonies, such as Takkesa Ge, Maka Hannya Haramita Shingyo, Fu Eku, Jin Ho San ...
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Understanding「雰囲気で点が取れるとはなんだったのか」
A guy invited his friend 伊理戸 to hang out in his room. Unfortunately, he only wants to study for a test. So the guy thought
伊理戸のやつテストばっかしててつまらねー!! 雰囲気で点が取れるとはなんだったのか
I am not quite sure about the ...
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Nuance between 技法、手法、方法、テクニック、 etc
Basically just wanting to know if there's a clear difference between these words. I get the feeling that テクニック is more like one person's own specific technique for doing a thing (entirely guessing ...
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