Japanese Help Questions/Translations

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee

I would choose the other kanji 治す for the same reason that you didn't choose it. Admittedly, I haven't read this book. But I feel from its title that the book discusses tardiness as a kind of a desease that can be cured if you do the things the book tells you to. Am I too far off in my conjecture so far? If not, 治す seems to fit better to me.

The other kanji 直す is mostly used to mean 'to correct mistakes' as in writing　and to repair what has gone wrong as in machines.

But then again, I'm open to other opinions on this one.

I don`t think either is wrong, but I`m more leaning to the 直す side. I think that グズ would fall more into the same category as 癖, which seems to be 直す in many of the books we have. (Parenting books cover 癖 quite a lot.) It seems to be more "correction" than "cure".

I can`t say which is *really* right though.

[Kaede]

Hello, me again with another dumb question!

I would like to be able to say the phrase:

"Tonight I am playing football [soccer]"


Unfortunately I do not know the Japanese words for 'tonight', 'playing/will play' or 'soccer'.

I guess it should be something like:

Tonight wa football o playing/will play.

Anyone got the answer?

Thank you!

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by Kaede

Hello, me again with another dumb question!

I would like to be able to say the phrase:

"Tonight I am playing football [soccer]"


Unfortunately I do not know the Japanese words for 'tonight', 'playing/will play' or 'soccer'.

I guess it should be something like:

Tonight wa football o playing/will play.

Anyone got the answer?

Thank you!

I'm pretty sure I can answer this one.

I guess it would be something like...

Konya watashi wa shuukyuu (I think this is the word for soccer) o shimasu.

Or to make it less wordy...I think you could say...

Konya wa shuukyuu o shimasu.

[emiluvsjmusic]

Originally Posted by SSJup81

I'm pretty sure I can answer this one.

I guess it would be something like...

Konya watashi wa shuukyuu (I think this is the word for soccer) o shimasu.

Or to make it less wordy...I think you could say...

Konya wa shuukyuu o shimasu.

err "shuukyuu" isn't the word for soccer
"sakkaa (サッカー)" is

but other than that you're right

[Henbaka]

Future tense isn't really the same as with english, is it? I'm so rusty but thats kind of my memory...

SSJup81 is correct tho, isnt he? (shuukyuu is soccer in japanese, while 'sakkaa' is the katakana-way..?)

[emiluvsjmusic]

omg you're right sorry >.<
lol i'd never heard of that word before

[Kaede]

Hey, thanks very much! I thought that 'shimasu' was the word for 'doing/will do' though? Unless it has multiple meanings? I guess 'Tonight I will do soccer' does kinda make sense though! I just assumed there would be a word for 'playing/will play'.

Sorry, I do not mean to be unappreciative, it's just that I like to understand things completely!

EDIT: Okay I have just written the following sentence in reply to my friend's question:

-blah, blah,blah....What are you doing tomorrow?

- Ah, Ii desu ne. Konya wa shuukyuu o shimasu. Ashita wa terebei de eiga o mimasu.
Ah, that's nice. Tonight I am playing football. Tomorrow I am watching a film on televeision.

[SSJup81]

There is a word for "to play", but when it comes to sports, you use suru. Well, that's what I've been taught anyway. The other way I know for "to play" is "hiku" which means "to play" for an instrument.

[jrocka83]

Originally Posted by emiluvsjmusic

err "shuukyuu" isn't the word for soccer
"sakkaa (サッカー)" is

but other than that you're right

I thought Japanese called it Football like the rest of the world?

That reminds me of this video...

Binocular Soccer

YouTube - Japanese Binocular Soccer

[Nagoyankee]

If I may be honest, very few Japanese under 60-70 would even know the word 'shuukyuu'. It's practically an obsolete word. Please use the word 'sakkaa' = サッカー.