Japanese Help Questions/Translations

[Nagoyankee]

寝過ぎ(ねすぎ) sleeping too much

寝なさ過ぎ （ねなさすぎ）　sleeping too little

[canikizu]

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee

I can easily translate these, but as for the grammar breakdown, it won't be too easy because these are highly colloquial phrases. So bear with me.

あいつら買い出しから帰ってこねぇかな = I wish those guys came back from their shopping soon.

あいつら = those guys,　　買い出し = a trip to the store(s),　帰ってこねぇ = Kanto speech for 帰ってこない = not return,　　かな = I wonder if, I wish ~

As usual, the real subject (I) is hidden. 帰ってこねぇ is in the negative form and that is important here.

verb in negative + かな = I wish (the action described by the verb) happens sometime soon.

Sounds strange? Sure, but that's language. You know they will come back. They just went out to pick up some items. They didn't go to space. But when you want to say that you hope they return soon, you use the negative form of the verb 'return' and add かな to it.

If you use the affirmative form and say あいつら買い出しから帰ってくるかな, it changes the meaning of the entire sentence. You are saying "I wonder if they return from their shopping." That means there's a chance that they might not return at all, which is not the case.

I know this sounds confusing to you now. You will get used to it over time, I promise. I thought about giving sample sentences using 'negative verb + kana' but decided against it because that's something you would need to do as with any other grammar points.


あなたは飲まなさすぎ = You drink too little.

飲み過ぎ（のみすぎ）　＝　to drink too much

飲まなさ過ぎ　＝　to drink too little

That すぎ　ending is very colloquial (and very often heard). The original verb there is 過ぎる　= to exceed. Added to another verb (in this case, to drink), it means 'to do something in excess'.

I got it now thank you. I've never thought it would be that deep "~".

[bencik]

Can someone help me figure out what the picture says?

It might be a kind of test, I'm looking for coordiantes in it.



Thank you!

[MMM]

Originally Posted by bencik

Can someone help me figure out what the picture says?

It might be a kind of test, I'm looking for coordiantes in it.



Thank you!

From the tail (11:00)
TE NU TO NE KU - TO HI O NI WO -

[majorheelhook]

my abasan will stay there a couple of nights ne
her friend no daughter soko ni sunderurashii

Help please! Translator helps me with Japanese to English vice versa, but I am lost when written phonetically.

[Naitomea]

Moshi,Moshi! I am from Canada and i'd like to learn all the basic Japanese words. I looked on the internet but not all the websites are actually right. Please if you can be my Japanese language sensei or a friend, email me or add me to msn. my email is: marshallsmaayn@yahoo.ca and my msn is unknownsmissfit@hotmail.com Arigato!

[Nagoyankee]

"my abasan will stay there a couple of nights ne
her friend no daughter soko ni sunderurashii "

"My aunt will stay there a couple of nights. It appears that her friend's daughter lives there."

[MMM]

Originally Posted by majorheelhook

Help please! Translator helps me with Japanese to English vice versa, but I am lost when written phonetically.

I think it is saying my aunt will stay there a couple of nights.
It seems her friend's daughter lives there.

Online translators are what keeps me in business.

EDIT: Nagoyankee beat me to it.

[Fantastic]

Ohayou Gozaimasu

haha I wish I knew more =]

Hi, I'm to JF.

I was wondering if someone could help me with a translation? I want to know how to say:

"Do you think you're cool?"
"I'll beat you." or "Defeat you."

Basically, some trash talk. haha Also, I understand profanity is not looked upon as good, but I was wondering if there's a post somewhere for just curse words.

correct me whenever you need.

Domo Sumimasen

(that means thanks right? or should it be arigatou?)

[Malachai]

Okay I need some help translating just one word.
I should be getting a tattoo of Friday and I want to know how to say 'Hate', spelling wise not Kanji symbol and such.
Because I know Love is Ai. And this is all I need to finish it off.