This is the place where Fusanosuke writes about her love for Japanese language and anything that relates to it.
In Düsseldorf we had a lunch at a very lovely place. This is the banner of the little ramen-shop.
The service was very nice and I had a chance to use the words 別々で and 緒で.
From
別々でお願いします -- べつべつでおねがいします -- We’d like separate checks please.
一緒で、お願いします -- いっしょで、おねがいします -- Please, make it one check.
I like the German versions better: 別々で -- Getrennt and 一緒で -- Zusammen.
In our case it was 一緒で -- it is always nice to treat someone for a lunch )))).
大事 --だいじ-- (adj-na,n) important; valuable; serious matter;
用 --よう-- (1) task; business; (2) use; duty; service;
"Something important"
I just came around this 用 again it in a little DN doujinshi and thought it was a nice way to illustrate the word.
"Death on the round table" Death Note doujinshi by Emu -- えむ - (circle - Zangyou Teate 残業手当).
「大事な用」
だと言うから
来てみたら
旨い --うまい-- delicious; appetizing;
美味しい --おいしい-- (uk) delicious; tasty;
Both are i-adjectives, both express that it tastes good. They seem to be interchangeable, if only oishii more of men's vocabulary, or so I gathered from the lesson.
(1) by 高尾滋 (Takao Shigeru).
This is my favourite manga about Taishou period. I'm reading it currently, trying to translate every phrase instead of skipping through and it definitely proves very useful as suddenly I see all the grammar points I've just learned.
でもこれはオレにバイオリンを教えてくれたじーさんが買ってくれた
教えてくれた --おしえてくれた--
買ってくれた -- かってくれた--
The problem with translation is that I always want to make it passive voice, though it's not passive in Japanese, but overall meaning is "But my grandpa had brought me this violin and taught me how to play it".
vol.1 ch.1 p.7
お邪魔します--おじゃまします-- (exp) (1) excuse me for disturbing (interrupting) you; (2) greeting used on going to someone's home
This is a polite and formal expression when entering someone's home. As for the "entering" there are 2 verbs to describe the procedure:
上がる --あがる--to go in, to come in
入る -- はいる -- to enter
The difference is in the threshold. If there is a threshold, then one needs to raise his/her foot to enter the location, hence, 上がる. If there is no threshold, then simple 入る will do.
部屋に入る - enter a room. The floor between a room and a corridor is usually even, one does not need to raise his/her foot.
家に上がる - enter a house. Here most likely there is a threshold or some sort of stairs.
And in each and every textbook there is :
風呂に入る - to take a bath.
誘ってくれてありがとう
誘う --さそう --- to invite, to call out
Thank you for inviting me.
for instance:
先日 --せんじつ-- (n-adv,n-t) the other day; a few days ago;
私…恥ずかしくてあげることが出来ないの
わたし…はずかしくてあげることができないの。
I'm too shy to do it.
恥ずい --はずい-- (adj-i) (See 恥ずかしい) (col) (abbr) embarrassing
恥ずかしい ---はずかしい--- (adj-i) shy; ashamed; embarrassed;
連続 --れんぞく --(n,vs) serial; consecutive; continuity; occurring in succession; continuing;
ことができる can (do); to be able to (do)
私は、30年連続バレンタインデーのチョコレートをもらう事ができなかったのか。
わたしは、30ねんれんぞくバレンタインデーのチョコレートをもらうことができなかったのか。
For 30 years in a row I haven't received Valentine chocolates.
Ok, that's a lie. I do get my Valinetine chocolate regularly, but it's such a nice phrase. Could not pass on it.
As for the word れんぞく, I had another one listed in my notebook:
連休 --れんきゅう -- (n) consecutive holidays;
Could I make a wild guess that it is made up of 連続 and 休み?
