I wasn’t (still am not) entirely sure what was confusing, but I’m glad you are satisfied.
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I think it’s the fact that an I-adjective (美しい) was between the modyfing verb phrase (湖の水面に映る) and the actually modified noun (山).
Ah, I took “makes sense” in the question to be about the meaning of 映る.
A very dumb newbie question here about negative form of です。 In different places i see the same thing written in two different ways but can’t figure out why… can someone explain the difference between the following?
猫ではありません
and
猫じゃありません
Thanks in advance 
じゃ is a contraction of では that is a spoken form, though it does get written that way sometimes. But if you’re writing something serious or formal, it’s best to avoid じゃ.
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Ah, they mean the same thing. ではありません is just more formal and common in speaking.
EDIT: classic leebo.
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Not quick enough T_T
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I was reading an article which had the headline:
“春に体や心の調子がよくないと感じる人が６０％いた”
Would i be right in saying that “よくないと感じる” just means “to feel bad about”, so the whole sentence is “60% of people feel bad about their bodies and hearts during the spring”? Or does 心 refer to something else here?
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Because of the quoting と particle here, 「と感じる」 would be referring to「 体や心の調子がよくない」to describe what the people were feeling
心 can also refer to the mind, so in the context of the headline I think it would take on the meaning of “the condition/state of health of body and mind”
So altogether something like → “60% of people felt that their physical and mental health were not good in the spring”
^^
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Oh right that makes sense, thanks!
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That dog is reading NHK easy news. Thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did.
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Okay so in the phrase ”雪が降っていつもより遅くなりました”, what exactly is going on? I get it’s saying "it snowed later than usual, but I can’t make sense of how the two parts connect:
”雪が降っていつもより” - It snowed more than usual
”遅くなりました” - It became late
Is it just a matter of where you’re breaking it in half?
雪が降って It snowed.
いつもより遅くなりました It was later than usual.
Remember that the て form is like gluing two sentences together, at least in this case.
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Yeah, to add to what Leebo said, the いつもより here is indicating that the snow came later, not that it snowed more than usual. (I’m on mobile, or I would quote and point things out more)
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Japanese modifies from left to right (like a huge bunch of modifiers for the verb at the end), so いつもより goes right as well
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ohhhh I’m an idiot! I see it now, thanks!
I checked that, but I think I just looked at it wrong, thanks!
It’s always gotta be the basics that I forget, thanks!
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Just to be clear, the meaning of the sentence is “It snowed, so I was later than usual.” The て form is being used here to indicate a reason / cause. It snowed, therefore the speaker arrived somewhere later than they usually do.
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I was going to say that I felt it was ambiguous, but assumed that he got the translation from something reliable. It’s not clear to me that it couldn’t mean what he mentioned. I made an effort not to assume too much in what I translated, just the literal meaning of the two halves, which covers either meaning.
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