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DragonShade 02-18-2008 08:47 AM

The line is said by the principal who was once a coach of a baseball team, then I think it's just "na" not "nasai"

Nyororin 02-18-2008 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Debezo (Post 401768)
hmm, 離れてな is possible as a shortened form of 離れてなさい.
however I don't think so in that context.

国語辞典 - な
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.p...&base=11&row=3

in that context, な correspond to usage of 二.

二 (間投助)
文節末に付いて、相手に言い聞かせるような気持ちを添 える。

I read it as like MMM's post. (and I read 彩珠 = 埼玉 Saitama.)

'shortened なさい or な' is ungrammatical, but I think it's な there by my feeling.

My classical Japanese scholar husband says that in common speech it`s mistaken for the regular "な", but following て is derived from なさん, an older form of なさい.

Whether it is correct in modern context, I can`t say, but everyone around me agrees that as a confirmation な (like with ね) it sounds unnatural. Especially coming from a えらい character.

junkomi 02-18-2008 12:05 PM

That means the same as 離れてね and 離れたんだ

Old men or people in a high position occationally use な like that almost only in literary works, TV dramas, and so on. We usually don't use it in the real world.:)

What the principal ment is that 野球を離れて、今は校長だ。
Certainly, 離れてな is possible as a shortened form of 離れてなさい. But it in the case is different on intonation from a shortened form of 離れてなさい. We have to distinguish them by intonation and contexts.

What Debezo said was correct.

DragonShade 02-18-2008 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by junkomi (Post 402828)
That means the same as 離れてね and 離れたんだ

Old men or people in a high position occationally use な like that almost only in literary works, TV dramas, and so on. We usually don't use it in the real world.:)

What the principal ment is that 野球を離れて、今は校長だ。
Certainly, 離れてな is possible as a shortened form of 離れてなさい. But it in the case is different on intonation from a shortened form of 離れてなさい. We have to distinguish them by intonation and contexts.

What Debezo said was correct.

Oh, I cant learn this from anywhere , haha, Ty


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