# よつばと! Vol 8 Discussion Thread (Yotsuba&! Reading Club)

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**Category:** Book Clubs\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 8:15am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-8-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/35665 "2019-03-18T08:15:51Z")\
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Nearly there…!

**Page 199** - せいがでますねー - is this [精](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%B2%BE)が出ますねー, meaning something like “hard work!”, perhaps?

I think it must be, because (1) dad then says she is getting to know lots of difficult words, and then (2) she said she heard the woman in the field say it!

**Page 203** - なにが そこまで, I’m pretty sure I know each word (what, there, up to), but can’t quite work out what he is saying here.

**Page 206** - in the first frame dad is obviously saying “you are good at finding them Yotsuba, I haven’t found even one”, but can someone remind me of what exactly this らん ending is?

**Page 209** - あのはっぱ いっこだけ あかい! - “that leaf is the only one that is red!”, no problems there, but I can see that the rest of the page is going to be a challenge. Pity to stop now, but I must. Only a few pages left, I’ll hopefully come back to it later!

Thank you again Kazzeon and Belthazar!

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> [@marcusp](#):
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> **Page 199** - せいがでますねー - is this [精](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%B2%BE)が出ますねー, meaning something like “hard work!”, perhaps?

Haha! 😂

> [@Belthazar](#):
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> > I imagine Page 199 is this [https://jisho.org/word/精](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%B2%BE) right?  
> > “精が出ますね”
> 
> Aye. In fact, it’s [精が出る](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%B2%BE%E3%81%8C%E5%87%BA%E3%82%8B).

😛

> [@marcusp](#):
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> **Page 203** - なにが そこまで, I’m pretty sure I know each word (what, there, up to), but can’t quite work out what he is saying here.

> **[Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%9D%E3%81%93%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A7)**
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> Powerful and easy-to-use online Japanese dictionary with words, kanji and example sentences.

Don’t really know how to translate it literally, but it’s something like, “Why go that far?”

> [@marcusp](#):
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> **Page 206** - in the first frame dad is obviously saying “you are good at finding them Yotsuba, I haven’t found even one”, but can someone remind me of what exactly this らん ending is?

[見つからない](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/negativeverbs2#A_casual_masculine_type_of_negative_that_ends_in) 🙂

Oh! You’re almost there. 😃

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Thank you again so much Kazzeon! Hopefully I’ll finish this volume tomorrow morning before I go to work! Thank you so much!

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**Page 209**

とーちゃん あきしってる? - “Dad, is autumn is coming?”

おしえてやろうか? - “shall I tell you?”

[ほう](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%BB%E3%81%86) 教えてくる - “oh! Come and tell me”

[いろんな](https://jisho.org/word/%E8%89%B2%E3%82%93%E3%81%AA)ものが あかくなっ[たり](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%9F%E3%82%8A)する… - “various things turn red”

き[とか](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B) やま[とか](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B) うみ[とか](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B) - “trees, mountains, the sea, etc…”

へぇー 海も… - “eh? The sea too…”

それからおなか ペコペコになる - “after all that, I’m getting a bit hungry”

**ふーか** が いってた - I have no idea about this one… someone was saying something…

あ あかだ - “ah, a red one!”

So, in the end, page 209 wasn’t too difficult at all. Just the one question… **what is ふーか in panel 5?**

Thanks again!

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> [@marcusp](#):
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> とーちゃん あきしってる? - “Dad, is autumn is coming?”

🤔

秋[知ってる](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%8B)?

> [@marcusp](#):
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> [ほう](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%BB%E3%81%86) 教えてくる - “oh! Come and tell me”

教えて[くれ](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%91%89%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B)

> [@marcusp](#):
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> それからおなか ペコペコになる - “after all that, I’m getting a bit hungry”

“And then, your stomach gets hungry.” (I think, since she’s continuing the part from before.)

> [@marcusp](#):
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> Just the one question… **what is ふーか in panel 5?**

へぇ, who could this Fuuka they speak of be? 👀

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> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> 秋[知ってる](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%8B)?

I’m an idiot! 😬

> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> 教えて[くれ](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%91%89%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B)

Thank you! That’ll teach me to read and type in a hurry! 🤕

> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> へぇ, who could this Fuuka they speak of be? 👀

Brilliant! Now you point it out, I can see it! Otherwise I’d never have got that! 😖

You are a real star Kazzeon! 🤴 Thank you so much! 🙇‍♂️

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The final few pages!

**Page 210**

そんな手が - “such a hand”? This has to be some kind of idiom I guess. Any ideas?

あとどれくらい - Google translate gives me “how long”, which makes some sense, but Jisho gives me nothing useful.Given that Yotsuba’s answer is 15, it must be “how many”.

ほんきできたか - I guess Yotsuba is saying 本気で来たか, but what does it mean to add the 来る here? Something like “are you really going to do it for real?”!

**Page 212**

とーちゃん [ばっかり](https://jisho.org/word/%E8%A8%B1%E3%82%8A) そんな すてきな… - “only dad can find such nice [acorns]”.

[そういう](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%9D%E3%81%86%E8%A8%80%E3%81%86)のは こどもには むずかしいの!! - it’s difficult for kids to find such things!!

でも松ぼっくりより どんぐりのが上だな - Okay, so this sentence compares acorns and pine cones (I always get a headache trying to figure out comparative sentences) and I guess that 上 here is being used as “better than”. Pine cones are better than acorns.

And then dad says また でっかいのあった and this causes Yotsuba to throw it at him. I have two theories: (1) また でっかいのあった means “plus, it is huge”, and Yotsuba throws it at him because he is being condescending. Or, (2) また でっかいのあった means “can you find another, but bigger”? And Yotsuba throws it at him as it be-littles her find, and raises too high an expectation (a bit like Asagi being asked to find a 5-leaf clover back in volume 3). Any ideas?

**Page 213**

Sorry, I can’t figure out the kanji in the second panel… and that might hold the key to what was going on before.

**Page 214**

よつばは どんぐり ひろいびとに なれるかも しれない…!  
よつばは - the one and only Yotsuba, “I”  
どんぐり - acorn  
ひろいびと - I guess 拾う+”person”, “collector”, but why does 拾う turn into ひろい?  
に - particle  
なれる - to become skilled in  
かも - perhaps  
しれない…! - to become known (in the negative here, but not meant as such)

“I might become well known as a skilled acorn collector”

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Done! Thank you again so much Kazzeon and Belthazar for all your patience and kindness. I’ve only been able to read Yotsuba because of this book-club, and for a long time now it has basically been just you two answering all my questions. I can’t tell you how grateful I am. Thank you.

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Hey! Was gonna answer a bit earlier, but I was eating. 😛

> [@marcusp](#):
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> そんな手が - “such a hand”? This has to be some kind of idiom I guess. Any ideas?

I thought the same, perhaps [Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%89%8B)  
#6, “That kind of trick/hand.” or #13, “That kind of move.”  
She’s basically going, “Yeah, I’ll just pick up some more, and then we’ll go. 🙂”

> [@marcusp](#):
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> あとどれくらい - Google translate gives me “how long”, which makes some sense, but Jisho gives me nothing useful.Given that Yotsuba’s answer is 15, it must be “how many”.

[Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary](https://jisho.org/word/%E4%BD%95%E3%82%8C%E3%81%8F%E3%82%89%E3%81%84) 😃  
“How many more do we have to pick up before we can buy clothes?”

> [@marcusp](#):
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> ほんきできたか - I guess Yotsuba is saying 本気で来たか, but what does it mean to add the 来る here? Something like “are you really going to do it for real?”!

I think this has to do with the fact that とーちゃん has a serious mode, so she’s saying,  
“So the serious mode has come…”

> [@marcusp](#):
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> でも松ぼっくりより どんぐりのが上だな

松ぼっくりより - compared to 松ぼっくり  
どんぐりのが上だな - どんぐり are 上  
So, it’s “Acorns are better than pine cones.” 😛  
I always have a hard time with these, too.

> [@marcusp](#):
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> [また](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%8F%88) でっかいのあった

I found another big one. 😛

> [@marcusp](#):
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> Sorry, I can’t figure out the kanji in the second panel… and that might hold the key to what was going on before.

投げんなよ “Don’t throw it.”

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> [@marcusp](#):
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> Pine cones are better than acorns.

Other way around. 松ぼっくり **より** more than pine cones, どんぐりのが上 acorns are better.

> [@marcusp](#):
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> Any ideas?

He found another huge acorn. The one he’s holding.

> [@marcusp](#):
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> Sorry, I can’t figure out the kanji in the second panel… and that might hold the key to what was going on before.

投げんな.

> [@marcusp](#):
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> ひろいびと - I guess 拾う+”person”, “collector”, but why does 拾う turn into ひろい?

Compound noun. 旅人 = traveller, 恋人 = lover, 拾い人 = collector. It’s not in Jisho, but it does get hits on Google (including lots of pictures from the time all the Japanese fans picked up rubbish at the last FIFA World Cup, and it went all viral).

> [@marcusp](#):
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> for a long time now it has basically been just you two answering all my questions

(I confess the fact that it’s just us two makes me a little sad…)

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> [@Belthazar](#):
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> (I confess the fact that it’s just us two makes me a little sad…)

ちょっとだけ, but it’s better than just stopping.  
We could all migrate to the newer book clubs, but I also wanna keep reading Yotsuba. .-.

Speaking of newer book clubs, I might finish the other 少女終末旅行 chapters I’m missing.

Do we continue with Volume 9 now? 😛

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Thank you both so much! I’ll work through those answers when I get back from work tonight! Thank you!

I’m also a bit sad that it’s just us three left. This manga is so good that I don’t really understand why there aren’t dozens of people reading along.

Should be start vol.9? On the one hand I would love to, but on the other hand perhaps we ought to have a good long break in order for people to catch up? The problem is, with so many bookclubs running now, the chances of someone either working through all 8 volumes to catch up, or just starting at volume 9, are very slim.

And, speaking personally, my plans are first to go back to cover what I missed in vol 4 (just a quick read-through with the vocab list) and then perhaps I’d be better off starting with Sweet Chilli’s Home when that gets going? I’d be one of hundreds of beginners there, rather than the only one! I just don’t know.

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Yeah, I don’t think people are catching up any time soon (not to say ever). 😂  
Perhaps we wait until someone else can join us, at least one more person. 😅  
Leave it in a hiatus, perhaps? Since you say you have other plans. 🙂

> [@marcusp](#):
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> Sweet Chilli’s Home

🤣

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/d/0/d083e0e3192acb11447fb4c54e04bb0455e37185.jpeg)  
I’ll start calling Chili’s that. 😆

> [@marcusp](#):
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> one of hundreds of beginners

That’s _a little_ optimistic. 😛

There’s also the fact that every time I read something else, it’s mostly fine.  
Instead of having a lot of fun like I do when I read Yotsuba. 😅

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> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> Perhaps we wait until someone else can join us, at least one more person. 😅

Good idea! Perhaps a note in the main thread saying that we are waiting for more readers before starting vol.9?

I’m sure it’ll happen, I hope it’ll happen, there is no way I want to stop reading Yotsuba!

> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> There’s also the fact that every time I read something else, it’s mostly fine.  
> Instead of having a lot of fun like I do when I read Yotsuba. 😅

Exactly!!! 🍀🍀🍀

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So, what have you guys been up to? 👀

I see that you liked some of my Vol. 4 comments, did you finish reading that?

Lately, I’m just waiting for the _チーズスイートホーム_ club to start. 🙃

So, I’ve also been everywhere on the forums, since I don’t have much else to do. 😛

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> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> I see that you liked some of my Vol. 4 comments, did you finish reading that?

Cheers Kazzeon! No, not yet, still working my way through it - it goes in fits and starts. Plus I’m back on WK, Kitsun, and Bunpro, which keep me busy. Plus I’m reading a Gundam manga (reading = looking up kanji in the dictionary, and ignoring grammar!), so nothing is getting done very fast. But I hope that some progress is being made.

I also want to make a start on volume 9 of Yotsuba for when we eventually get going with that, but no time to do so yet!

And yes, back on WK the temptation is always there to spend time on the forums, and I’ve seen you around - as wise and as helpful as you always are!

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> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> But she says that it’s usually in a fun way, instead of just giving them bad cake. 😛

Reviving this ancient topic to ask… how did you get there from たのしいのやってる方だけで? I’m especially confused about what の is doing there 🤔

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**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-8-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/35665/201 "2023-03-05T01:37:40Z")

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Can I get the page? (Image)

I can see getting to that, but just the text makes me think they’re saying something else.

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**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-8-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/35665/202 "2023-03-05T01:49:08Z")

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I’d say it’s the page I uploaded in [this post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-8-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/35665/75). Bottom-right panel.

Thought it was a bit mean of @Phryne to make _us_ do all the work of rummaging through several layers of quoted posts in a four-year-old conversation to work out just what the question was. 😛

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**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-8-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/35665/203 "2023-03-05T06:56:27Z")

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> [@Phryne](#):
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> たのしいのやってる方だけで

たのしい fun  
の #2 I’d say

> **[renshuu.org - cute Japanese studying that's built around you](https://www.renshuu.org/grammar/132/%e3%81%ae)**
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> Definitions, usage patterns, model sentences, advanced notes, and user-written sentences for the grammar expression: の

やってる方 way of doing  
だけで just

Sorry, I was out. 😜

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**Author:** ![Phryne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/phryne/32/331136_2.png) [@Phryne](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Phryne)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-8-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/35665/204 "2023-03-05T06:56:38Z")

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Oops, you are right! I forgot that that little aside wasn’t mentioned in Marcus’ original question 😅 Sorry! 🙏🏻

> [@Kazzeon](#):
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> やってる方 way of doing

Ah I’d’ve never figured that one out!

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