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@zuzu Makes me feel better that we’re all guessing at this point lol :):sweat_smile: Also, thank you so much @Radish8 for all that vocab, it’s going to save me a ton of time and I’m grateful since I have none :slight_smile: [image]

Page 10!! So 妖怪 has two different readings within the same page. The first is ようかい in the third speech bubble on the left side of the page, and then on the bottom the same kanji pops up but now it’s read as やつ. I believe it still means Youkai from my poor translation skills, but can someone possi…

From context clues and asking my supervisor at work I got something along the lines of: “There was a place like that through that bush[those bushes].” Where “place like that” refers to the 神社

[image] Leilaure: 藪をぬけた所 I was interested in that construction, so I did some more digging. According to Weblio 私の家はこの森を抜けた所にあります translates simply as “My house is just past these woods.” Anyone can chip in on the subject of ような気が。。。?

[image] fandomslight: The first is ようかい in the third speech bubble on the left side of the page, and then on the bottom the same kanji pops up but now it’s read as やつ. I believe it still means Youkai from my poor translation skills, but can someone possibly explain if there’s a reason behind th…

Other WK users seem to agree: [image] 地球 read as くに? (Sailor Moon OP song) Japanese Language こんにちは！ Near the end of “Moonlight Densetsu” there is the line, that sounds: おなじくににうまれたのミラクル・ロマンス。 I thought that くに in that line would be 国, but to my utmost surprise japanese l…

[image] Leilaure: Is it それより one word as in “apart from just what just happened, is there a shinto shrine nearby?” or それ and より as two different words, in which case I’m guessing it would be more along the line of “where’s the closest shrine in the neighborhood?”… Full sentence: それより近くに神社ってないか？ …

@Leilaure suggested it might be ような気がする either cut mid-sentence or in a casual form? I’ve never encountered this expression before anyway, so I don’t know how it’s used at all [image] Leilaure: I’m guessing the full expression would be ような気がする, and Natsume cuts him mid-sentence… Or does the sur…

Thanks for clearing that up! That makes a lot of sense actually. It’s probably just because I haven’t done a lot of reading that I haven’t seen that before. But knowing really helps!

I think it must be cut-off, both because of the context and because you wouldn’t grammatically end a sentence with a particle like that. Japanese trails off sentences without finishing them a lot D: 気がする means something like “I have a feeling” or “I have a hunch”, so this would essentially make the…

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