Japanese Sentence a Day Challenge

MrInnerPeaceさんはヨーロッパにいれば、VERASIAというインターネットの本屋で文庫版の漫画を買うことが出来ると思います。今年このサイトでGenkiとTobiraを買いました。:slight_smile:

MrInnerPeace, if you’re in Europe, you can buy paperback editions of manga from an Internet bookstore called VERASIA. This year I bought Genki and Tobira on that site. :slight_smile:

ユーロ人じゃないだ。そういえばもし尋ねるもいいどれの国でいるのか?

今オーストラリア、いや、冗談、オーストリアに住んでいます。生まれた国は秘密です。 :wink:
あなたは?

カナダで住んでそれも母国だ。具体的にはケベック州で住んでいる。ここに全部の人生で住んでいる。

オーストリアについてあまり知らないしどんな日常なのか? あの国の文化全然知らなくてごめんも言いたい。そこにドイツの方言の存在と語るだけ知た。ユーロペに一度旅行した。

カナダ人ですか。面白いですよ!カナダ人の友達もいます。優しい人々だし、よく飲酒に行くことにしています。:slight_smile:

You/re Canadian? Interesting! I also have Canadian friends. They’re really people and we often go drinking together. :slight_smile:

オーストリアでは日常生活は退屈のような気がします。:stuck_out_tongue:
オーストリア語はドイツ語らしいけれど、色々な違いがあります。例えば、発音が少し違います。僕はドイツ語にははっきり話し方があると思います。

It feels that the everyday like in Austria is dull. :stuck_out_tongue:
The Austrian language is similar to German, but there are various differences. For example, the pronunciation differs a little. I think the way of speaking in German is clearer.

どんな料理のが好きあるのか?北米の周りでは料理がけっこうがなくてそれなら俺は別の場所で良いな食べ物を発見に希望してるようね。ユーロぺの周りお前らは良いな料理者だって聞きた。これが私の現実だったといいだぜ

「月光」という映画は「月光の下で黒い男の子が青いみたい」という劇から書きあらためた。題名を変えてよかったから、あの題名は最低だったと思うよね。

あの映画まだ観らないけど今で映画館へShang-Chiを観たいだ。あの映画は映画館へ観れるのか?映画館のなかで今年観ることができなくて緊急事態宣言では先三ヶ月まえが終わた。まだ帰らない。

このは怖いです!
みんなは上手です

Yeah that’s about as good as I can manage at the moment, open to corrections :slight_smile:

Only one correction: この must refer to a noun (or noun phrase). If it stands alone as “this”, you use これ :slight_smile:

So you’d say この車は赤い to say “this car is red” but if you’re letting the listener infer from context that it’s the car you’re talking about, you say これは赤い (“this is red”).

Awesome thank you, I went back and forth on that one and wasn’t even sure if it could be applied in the broader “this (situation/experience)” sense.

Yes, it can! All the indicatives (これ/それ/あれ/どれ) can be used in an abstract sense, and even words indicating directionality can, in some cases (so words like こちら/そちら/あちら/どちら). You see that second one in referring to choices for example: 赤と青、どちらがいい? - red or blue, which would you prefer?

もう映画館へShang-Chiを観たことがある。多少良かった。Leungさんはザマンダリンとしてとても完全だった。映画の見どころだったと思うよ。

じゃあ、月光。。。とっくにあの映画が出た。もうお前は映画館へ見られると思わない。もっとも、出たら、俺の都市に1つだけ映画館はあの映画を映し出していた。

僕は美術館に行って。美術をたくさん写真します。

I’m going to the museum. And, I will take a lot of pictures of the art.

そうそう。へへへ。実、僕はなかなか親しいです。あざのさんは想像しました。しかし、世界に人々様なあざのさんがいる。本当にめんどくさいですね。 :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Yeah, yeah. hehehe. Truly, I’m quite friendly. I imagined Azano-san. However, there are Azano-san like people all over the world. It’s really tiresome, you know. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Nessaは私の犬です。私はNessaを引き取った。

As always - open to corrections! I’m aware the sentences don’t flow very well, I would like to build on longer sentence structures but I’m trying to master crawling before I attempt to run so avoiding cramming too many things in one.
Ideally I’d like to write “Nessa is the dog I adopted from Romania last year”, but I’ll try building up to that, so for today it’s just “Nessa is my dog. I adopted Nessa.”

Looks good! The only thing I would add is that if the first sentence ends with です and you would like to maintain the politeness level, the second sentence should feature the ます form of 引き取る.

As for “Nessa is the dog I adopted from Romania last year”, think of “I adopted from Romania last year” as a description/descriptor of the dog and then it will flow :slight_smile: .

ネッサちゃんは去年ロマニアで我の養子になった犬だ

Idk if that would work as a translation lol

Hmm yeah, probably not, because 養子 refers to children and Nessa is a dog. 引き取る makes more sense, but kind of wanted to leave that to @kpyro to figure out the sentence :sweat_smile: .

I’m glad I at least got that bit right, I saw 養子 but questioned it because of the 子 kanji, and the example given on jisho for 引き取る referred specifically to animals so I thought that might be the more appropriate one.
Thanks for the example though @MrInnerPeace it is nice to see how it might be structured. I’ll just have to come up with a new one for my ferrets… wonders if there’s a kanji for ferrets

ETA jisho says yes: 白鼬 しろいたち literally “white weasel” :slight_smile:

Looks good! Our resident pirate cosplayer has already given some good advice, so I’ll just expand a bit on this bit:

In Japanese, entire clauses can be descriptors preceding the noun they modify, usually when using progressive tense (〜ている) or past tense (〜た).

So for example:
踊っている人間 means “dancing humans”

Or when using past tense:
暗くなった部屋 means “the room that got dark”

You can do this with entire phrases, really. In a construction like 明日買っても今日もう壊れた車, the whole 明日買っても今日もう壊れた part is just a descriptor for 車, so that means “the car that already broke today even though I bought it yesterday”.

You can use the same principle here.
Spoiler in case you want to know how to say “Nessa is the dog I adopted from Romania last year”:

Nessaは(私が)去年ルーマニアから引き取った犬だ

(I used the plain form there, to make it a more polite sentence just replace だ with です)

Not really, it’s a bit strange - you’re essentially saying Nessa is the dog that became your adopted (implied to be human) child in Romania.

で marks the location where an action takes place which might work, but I think the implication is that you went to Romania, adopted a dog there, and then took it back. Might be what happened, but I interpreted it as the dog coming from Romania to be adopted here (not an uncommon occurrence, here in the Netherlands at least - a friend of mine did exactly that).

And 我 is a bit of an unusual first person pronoun to use I think, but I guess that’s not incorrect, just a bit odd maybe :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Also I’m not sure about this but to me using なる feels like taking emphasis away from the act of adopting, almost making it seem as if the adoption was something that just sort of happened.

There is! Well, a word written in kanji anyway: 白鼬しろいたち