Need help with translation plz

Japanese Language Grammar
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I am reading a book and found a sentence that, despite all my effort, I can’t quite understand. Can someone help me plz?

I will put the sentence before in case it could be of any help.

じゃあここは、ほんとうにちゃんとうした街だったのか。

そういうことかな。ちゃんとした街ってのがどういうものなのか、おれには、わからないけど。

thx in advance for the help

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If you try to translate it then we might have a better idea of what to help you on, as opposed to just posting a translation with no explanation (or trying to explain every part)

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I will try

"It’s seem so. carefully this road (I don’t undertand that part) what does it mean, I don’t understand "

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can you give us some context (is it historical, manga, drama, fiction, time period?)

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I’m guessing “carefully this road” is your attempt for ちゃんとした街. That’s more like “a proper town”. まち is town. I guess street is listed as a translation on jisho, but it’s more in the sense of " a neighborhood that size ".

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Then, it really was a proper city here?

Something like that, I guess. But I don’t know what a proper city means (what you mean by a proper city).

That’s my attempt at translating it. I don’t know how well I did. I’m also waiting for other answers :relaxed:

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thx guys that was quick. :sweat_smile: was wondering what した街 was and thought they put it at the ーて form.

街 had “street” as definition on WK.

Never thought one word could screw my understanding of a sentence over

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For a meaning of the kanji character. The word isn’t on WK.

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Yeah that was my mistake

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but what is the extra う doing in there?

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A typo?

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yeah my fault srry

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It is on WK, it just uses the 町 kanji instead
From what I’ve gathered there’s a lot of words like this that can use alternate kanji that mean similar things, jisho lists 街 as an alternate kanji of 町 for instance so I’m guessing 町 is the more common kanji

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Stupid question, what’s した ? する or 下 as in 下町 ?

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It’s する.
That being said, it’s better to consider ちゃんとした as a single word…

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Thanks, didn’t find it on Jisho

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Hello! I didn’t want to start a new topic, that’s why I am posting in existing one. I would kindly ask for some help with translation of the sentence down below:
It is the name of an music album (Jp/Sl collaboration), the translation would go something like this: “The snakes are waiting for the blue sky, cold road, too soon for me.” I am curious if this is accurate? I am very excited though I am able to recognize kanji for blue, old and sky!

蛇は青い空を待っている。凍り付いた道、わたしにはまだ早い。

Thanks,
j.

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It looks correct to me; maybe it would be better to translated “frozen road” than just cold.

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