Hi everybody, I’m struggling a bit finding the right translation for this sentence on page 10 (physical book, original edition):
でもわかいひとがみておもしろいものなんてないでしょう.
What does ‘omoshiroii mono’ reflect on? Tohru watching the ornaments as young person or the ornaments themselves?
It is this 物 and refers to the ornaments. I think the full sentence means (very liberally): But the things probably don’t look very interesting for a young person.
If you need more of a breakdown, just shout 
I’m reading this now and even though this thread is over I was informed by some helpful people that I can still post questions here!
I’m trying to read four pages a day and at least once per page I encounter questions I can’t quite figure out so I thought I’d post here. Apologies in advance if I ask a question that has already been discussed. I try to go through the thread and see if it’s been mentioned but not always easy on my phone.
So here we go!
What’s the purpose of the よ?
What’s the か after 辞書?
How does everything fit together? I guess I’m roughly N4 in grammar but I don’t really see any specific grammar points that I’m missing (other than what I mentioned) and I know the words but I can’t really make sense of the sentence. This is pretty common when reading Japanese for me so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I think I can help you with this one
It’s this one:
It’s this one: かなにか - Jisho.org
Ok let’s tackle this piece by piece:
(this is Shigure who was hit on the head by Yuki with a bag, I think)
やたら痛いよ - “That hurts a lot, bro!!”
このカバン - “This bag”
辞書か何か - “a dictionary or something”
入ってない？ - “is inside?” (this is actually in the negative but that doesn’t mean that its meaning is negative - it’s a bit like the English “isn’t it” which doesn’t have a negative meaning either. Very common in Japanese and very confusing)
(and Yuki responds)
うん - “Yes”
２冊ほど - “around 2 volumes”
Does this make more sense now? If not, please keep asking!
Yeah it makes total sense, and thanks for the breakdown. It lets me see where I was confused.
I didn’t understand that やたら痛いよ was a separate clause and I was trying to figure out where it fit with the following sentence. That threw me off completely. か何か as a phrase was new to me as well. I was wondering if the first か was “or” but wasn’t sure. I also expected a particle after カバン - maybe に? Thanks for the help, and I will keep reading (and asking I’m sure 
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This is sometimes very tricky to figure out - sometimes there are two or more sentences in one bubble, sometimes a sentence runs across two or more bubbles. The lack of punctuation is not exactly helpful either…
There are some particles that strongly indicate a sentence end, like よ (this has a similar effect as an exclamation mark in English, is my interpretation) or ね (asks for agreement) as well as a few others. So these may help a bit.
Yeah, it basically means “or something” so you were pretty spot-on 
In colloquial speech particles often get dropped. One would also expect が after 辞書か何か, I guess…
Wish I would have listened to all the people that told me to start reading a long time ago hahaha
Well as you know, that would have been the best moment to start reading, and the second-best moment is today 
Just know that every hour you put in to it, helps you get better at reading.
What really helped me in my reading journey is this grammar video. I also noticed that my reading comprehension grew more when sticking to one series. The other thing that helped me was not caring about every single thing in a sentence. Just getting the gist and moving on (but with looking up every word I do not know) helped me go from being able to barely read one page in one session to reading a whole volume in a few hours without getting really tired in just a month or two.
It would be awesome if I got to that point by March or so. Other than WK I’m using Bunpro but this year I decided I finally needed to rip the band aid off and fumble through manga. My daughter loves Fruits Basket (anime) so that’s why I chose it and that is extra motivation to stick with it. Even though I’m slow she’s already enjoyed talking about it with me.
