I’ve been trying to find onomatopoeia or nonsense to express things like humming a song, but no matter how I phrase the question when searching, I can’t find any. Does anybody know the answer or how to find the answer? Should you just add 〜 to the end of something? Thanks.
This is the first thing that came to mind (they’re in a train and she’s singing about it):
So 〜 but also the insertion of っ to add cadence to the words. And the music notes but that’s obviously not always applicable…
If it’s meant to be wordless humming, maybe something like るるるん? My wife says there isn’t one universal onomatopoeia she can think of.
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Thank you so much! Didn’t even think of small tsu.
Then I’m glad I have confirmation. I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t get results, so that explains it.
Thank you! This is slightly off topic, but what platform do you watch on that has Japanese subtitles? I struggle finding platforms with them.
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Netflix has Japanese captions available for most (but not all) of their new Japanese content.
In the Profile Settings page of the Netflix account settings, you can add Japanese to your preferred languages. Then it will appear at the top of the list of subtitle options when you are watching a show with Japanese subs available.
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What game is this?
Final Fantasy VIII
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I found this on hi native
https://ja.hinative.com/questions/17168565#google_vignette
It’s someone asking what do Americans use for humming and give the example
フンフーンフンフン for their way of doing it in Japanese.
I looked up 鼻歌 (humming) のオノマトペ ('s onomatopoeia) into google to get this link.
I think that ラララ is lalala so I personally don’t think that’s humming…
I think of the hmm hmm hmm if I were to write humming sounds.
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Yes! That’s exactly the same way I’d write humming in English. That’s why I was confused because that’s not easily transferrable to Japanese. Thank you for the link.
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