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hitotsz 05-02-2010 03:50 AM

Hitotsu mo ame ha nagasanai
 
What does that mean?

GreenTeaWater 05-10-2010 05:08 PM

"Not a single drop of rain falls."

nanicoar 05-10-2010 06:54 PM

Why flows-not instead of one-not?

chryuop 05-10-2010 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nanicoar (Post 811581)
Why flows-not instead of one-not?

Instead of not-one sees look at it with a negative verb.
"it doesn't even fall a single drop of rain".

nanicoar 05-10-2010 07:59 PM

Verbs! My nemesis, I should have known!

Thank you. It makes sense. :)

KyleGoetz 05-10-2010 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nanicoar (Post 811587)
Verbs! My nemesis, I should have known!

Bullets—my only weakness! How did you know?

Sashimister 05-10-2010 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GreenTeaWater (Post 811565)
"Not a single drop of rain falls."

Way off.

Quote:

Originally Posted by chryuop (Post 811585)
"it doesn't even fall a single drop of rain".

No, sir.
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Since no one is getting it correct, I shall deal with this romaji question.

Just look at the transitive verb 流さない everyone. This is about rain washing something away, not rain drops themselves falling. Besides, you never count "rain" ひとつ, ふたつ、 etc.

"Rain doesn't wash away even one of those."

What "those" are, only the OP would know. It should have appeared before this sentence.

Caerula 05-10-2010 10:01 PM

Yes, and a familar noun would be 流し, right? :) This vocabulary is stuck to my kitchen sink (on a post-it) LOL
Ah, is the past form of 流す 流した?

KyleGoetz 05-10-2010 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caerula (Post 811598)
Yes, and a familar noun would be 流し, right? :) This vocabulary is stuck to my kitchen sink (on a post-it) LOL
Ah, is the past form of 流す 流した?

yes
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nanicoar 05-11-2010 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz (Post 811589)
Bullets—my only weakness! How did you know?

Cryptic answer:

One even under rain flows not. Hrm-hmm!

Also, my dict says "following a number, mo indicates the speaker considers the number inordinately large." Being a person who finds the number 8 dauntingly large I can appreciate how much bigger one is over zero, demo my malnourished 分る is mada 危ない橋を渡る. :D


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